Iron Jawed Angels Page #7
- Year:
- 2004
- 123 min
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She said that, in prison or out,
American women are not free.
No talking.
It's warm in here. Can we open a window?
Get to work.
Can't you see she looks faint?
I'm only asking that you open a window.
Matron, my needle broke.
May I have another?
That's better, isn't it?
Put her in solitary.
You...
clean that up.
I'll have to report this to the warden.
and an empty slop bucket.
I'm a lawyer, not a magician, Miss Vernon.
If Whitaker says no one in solitary
can see counsel...
no one sees counsel.
It's a new prison. He has the run of
the place until their paperwork's in order.
I need a judge who's not on a string.
We can't have a martyr on our hands.
Get on your feet!
What are you doing?
Okay.
I'm Dr. White, Alice.
The District Commissioner
asked me to speak with you.
Do you know where you are?
District prison hospital.
The mental ward.
You refuse to eat.
Can you tell me why?
The hunger strike was a tradition
in old Ireland.
You starve yourself on someone's doorstep
until restitution is made...
and justice is done.
It doesn't sound like
a very effective method.
A stinking corpse on your doorstep?
What will the neighbors say?
So you stand on the President's doorstep.
He's treated you very badly, hasn't he?
It's the law that treats women badly.
But you picket President Wilson.
He's the one who put you here.
We picket the office of the presidency.
It has nothing to do with Mr. Wilson...
and everything to do
with the position he holds.
But he's responsible
for your treatment here.
I believe I was sent here
by a district commissioner.
You call yourself a suffragist.
Yes.
Tell me about your cause.
Just talk freely.
Explain yourself.
Do you understand the question?
You asked me to explain myself.
I just wonder what needs to be explained.
It should be very clear.
Look into your own heart.
I swear to you, mine's no different.
You want a place
in the trades and professions...
where you can earn your bread.
So do I.
You want some means of self-expression...
some way of satisfying
your own personal ambitions.
So do I.
You want a voice in the government
under which you live.
So do I.
What is there to explain?
She shows no signs of persecution mania
or delusion.
I concur with Dr. Hickling.
There is no medical basis for a diagnosis.
You don't feel
she needs to be permanently hospitalized?
For her own safety. She's suicidal.
You said so in your report.
The prison doctor said so.
I said she was prepared to starve to death
in order to further her cause.
Okay, I'm not a doc,
but that sure sounds unhealthy to me.
"Give me liberty, or give me death."
Patrick Henry, an American hero.
Apples and oranges.
In oranges and women...
courage is often mistaken for insanity.
Eyes front!
Hunger strike?
I was standing
By my window
On a cold and cloudy day
Quiet!
When I saw that
Hearse come rolling
Will the circle
Quiet!
Be unbroken
Get her out of here.
By and by, Lord, by and by
There's a better home a-waiting
In the sky, Lord, in the sky
Lord, I told that undertaker
"Undertaker, please drive slow
"For that body you are hauling
"Lord, I hate to see her go"
Will the circle
Be unbroken
By and by, Lord, by and by
There's a better home a-waiting
In the sky, Lord, in the sky
I will follow
Close behind her
Try to hold up and be brave
But I could not
Hide my sorrow
When they laid her in the grave
Will the circle
Be unbroken
By and by, Lord, by and by
There's a better home a-waiting
In the sky, Lord, in the sky
Where is she? Tell me where she is.
Tell me!
If you do anything to hurt that girl...
You do anything...
Mrs. Leighton!
Sit here, Mrs. Leighton.
Senator, you need to stay where you are.
She's ill.
Has she seen a doctor?
She's not ill, sir. She refuses to eat.
Maybe you can persuade her.
I'd like to be alone with my wife.
Only monitored visits. Those are the rules.
Sorry, no exceptions.
How are the girls?
- I want you to come home.
- No physical contact with the prisoner.
I'll speak to President Wilson.
- He can issue a pardon.
- For what?
I haven't broken any laws.
The girls keep asking for you.
If Rebecca can't sleep,
just sit beside her and pat her head.
Sometimes I do that.
They are the only reason I am here.
I'm sorry.
I know.
That's all the time we have.
- New York has voted to enfranchise women.
- Carrie...
I've never pressed you
for a federal amendment, Mr. President.
New York. That's 232 presidential electors.
- We're at war.
- Then call it a war measure.
- Congress will never pass it.
- Lf you support it, they will.
I'm sorry.
You've been very patient, I know.
I was put in a straitjacket
and taken to the psychopathic ward.
I could not see my family or friends.
Counsel was denied me.
I saw no other prisoners
and heard nothing of them.
I could see no papers.
Today I was force-fed for the third time.
I refused to open my mouth.
My left nostril, throat,
and muscles of my neck are very sore.
I vomit continuously during the process.
These women are not political prisoners.
Are you saying force-feeding
is a medical procedure?
Why can't these women see their lawyers?
We have no such thing in this country.
Are there doctors present
for this procedure?
The President has ordered
many investigations.
And no abuse has been disclosed.
Who ordered the force-feeding?
Let's not waste time with pleasantries.
I'll be blunt, may I?
The foreign press will pick this up.
Tell the President
that he can look like a damned fool...
or he can deal me in.
Now, sir.
This war could not have been fought
by America...
if it had not been for the services of women.
You're being released.
We have made partners of the women
in this war.
Let her be.
Shall we admit them only to a partnership...
of suffering, sacrifice, and toil...
and not a partnership of privilege and right?
I know the magic it will work
in their thoughts and spirits...
if you give this thing to them.
That is mere justice.
We shall need their moral sense...
to preserve what is right
and fine and worthy...
in our system of life.
Be assured, the voices of the radicals
who agitate and disrupt...
have no influence here today.
Got him.
The task of woman...
lies at the very heart of the war.
And I know how much stronger
that heart will beat...
if you do this just thing...
and show our women that you trust them...
as much as you, in fact, depend on them.
We shall deserve to be distrusted...
if we do not enfranchise them...
with the fullest possible enfranchisement...
as it is now certain
the other great free nations...
will enfranchise them.
Have I said that
the passage of this amendment...
is a vitally necessary war measure?
And do you need further proof?
Congress doesn't make it a law.
Thirty-six states have to agree,
and then they put it in the Constitution.
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