Salt of the Earth (1954)

Juan Chacón: Ramon Quintero

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• Esperanza Quintero : Ramon, I don't like to bother you, but the store, they say, uh, we will not make another payment on the radio this month, they'll come and take it away... We're only one payment behind... I argued with her. It isn't right.

  Ramon Quintero : It isn't right, she says. Was it right that we bought this... this instrument? But you *had* to have it, didn't you. It was *nice* to listen to.

  Esperanza Quintero : I listen to it... every night... when you are out at the beer parlor.

  Ramon Quintero : 'No money down'. 'Easy term payments'. I tell you something: This installment plan--it's a curse on the working man!

  [storms out] 

• Ramon Quintero : But there's another thing like when you came in tonight.

  [Pointing to a picture] 

  Ramon Quintero : I heard you asked your wife, "Who's that, his grandfather?" That's Juárez, the father of Mexico. If I wouldn't know a picture of George Washington you would say I was an awful dumb Mexican.

  Charley Vidal : I've never seen it fail. Try to give Ramón a friendly criticism and he kicks it right back in your face.

  Frank Barnes : No, he's right. I got a lot to learn.