Todd Bridges credited as playing...
Solomon Henry
- Eva Beadle: Solomon?
- Solomon Henry: Yes, ma'am?
- Eva Beadle: Can you think of something that you dislike?
- Solomon Henry: Being a nigger.
- Solomon Henry: You answer me something, Sir. Would you like to live to be a hundred?
- Charles Ingalls: I'm sure. It's not very likely, but I guess all of us want to live to be a right-old age.
- Solomon Henry: Would you rather be black and live to be a hundred, or white and live to be fifty?
- Solomon Henry: I want learnin', Mama! I wanna read! I wanna go to school like all them other children!
- Mrs. Henry: That's a white man's school, Honey! You can't go there!
- Solomon Henry: Why? If we free, why can't I?
- Mrs. Henry: You're free to be what the white folks want you to be...
- Charles Ingalls: Well Solomon, this paper is dated 1854. That's a long time ago. Folks can't sell themselves anymore.
- Solomon Henry: Who says?
- Charles Ingalls: Well, I know that Walnut Grove must seem like the end of the world, but even we have heard of the Emancipation Proclamation.
- Solomon Henry: If I have to be what the white folks want me to be, than I'm a slave as much as Papa was.