The Green Promise (1949)
Milburn Stone: Reverend Jim Benton
Quotes
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Reverend Jim Benton : The really sinful man or woman is the one who, through bigotry and ignorant pride, refuses to learn, and calling his ignorance virtue tries by self-made rule and by scorn to keep all others from learning. These are the real sinners. And here is the vilest evil: to feed their ego, to disguise their inadequacies, to hide their quaking fears, they sneer at the new, revile the experimenter and deride the pioneer and then, hypocritically, defend their actions behind the fog-bound fortress of intolerance.
