- Father John Banks: What's wrong?
- Linc Hayes: It's that car back there. It seems to have been following us all the way.
- Father John Banks: So?
- Linc Hayes: So you're a controversial figure, Father, like Dr. King and Malcolm X.
- Father John Banks: You've been seeing too many movies, Linc.
- Linc Hayes: No, Father. I've been watching the news on television for the last two years.
- Father Bob Hughes: You know we get a lot of mail protesting your activities. Well, this one letter came today and I think you ought to read it.
- Father John Banks: [Reads letter] "N-I-G-E-R." He don't even know how to spell!
- Father Bob Hughes: John, be serious. That man is threatening your life.
- Father John Banks: Well, it ain't the first time.
- Father John Banks: The highest doctrine of our church is the principle of the individual conscience.
- Father Bob Hughes: Yes.
- Father John Banks: And man is truly in a state of grace if he believes - I mean, man, really believes - that what he is doing is right in the eyes of God.
- Father Bob Hughes: Yes, that's the doctrine.
- Father John Banks: Well, Bob, I am right. I mean, you know that I am right, you know it!
- Father Bob Hughes: I can't know that, John. It's not between you and me. That's not even between you and the bishop.
- Father John Banks: You're right. It's between me and Jesus.
- Matt Jenkins: He's still a priest!
- Frank: What kind of a priest? He's an agitator. Look, he's a self-serving militant. The church means nothing to him. His vows mean nothing.
- Father John Banks: Hey, brother, would you mind if I said a little prayer for you? Might make you get well a little quicker.
- Linc Hayes: I'd like that.
- Father John Banks: Then I'll lay one on you. Later.
- Linc Hayes: Father John? Keep the faith, baby.
- Father John Banks: Yeah, Linc.