Gallant and Pratt in “A Thousand Cranes”

[discussing their previous arrest] I don't get how you can roll over like that?

Pratt

That's the way it works sometimes.

Yeah. If you let it.

Pratt

What are you going to do, file a lawsuit?

That's one way to fight it.

Pratt

There is no fighting it.

You know, I don't buy that.

Pratt

Look, we could be perfect, you know, like Gandhi. But as soon as the crap goes down, we'll be the first ones laid out in the street with a gun to our head. Now, where I grew up, you see it every day. And if it happens to you enough, you get the message. You are not equal. You are not a full citizen. You are first, last, and above all, one thing and one thing only: a suspect.