![]() Lieutenant Colonel Jim Johnson: They let women handle that sort of. I have the right to see fine in every color. Katherine Johnson: How can you be possibly ogling these white men? Mary Jackson: It's equal rights. Al Harrison: Space is business?! I need a mathematician. ![]() Paul Stafford: International business machine. What’s it called? The initials.the letters? Ruth: IBM. I'd already be one.Īl Harrison: Where’s the machine? Ruth: Any day now, Mr. Let me ask you, if you were a white male, would you wish to be an engineer? Mary Jackson: I wouldn't have to. I think we can say we are living the impossible. Now I'm standing beneath a spaceship that's going to carry an astronaut to the stars. Karl Zielinski: And I'm a Polish Jew whose parents died in a Nazi prison camp. You can't be a computer the rest of your life. Karl Zielinski: Mary, a person with an engineer's mind should be an engineer. Vivian Mitchell: Despite what you may think, I have nothing against y'all. Ladies, that there is a God-ordained miracle! I don't even know where to begin! Mary Jackson: I'll tell you where to begin: three "colored" women are chasing a white police officer down a highway in Hampton, Virginia, 1961. Dorothy Vaughan: Doesn't mean you hit him in the ass! Katherine Johnson: Dear Lord. Dorothy Vaughan: Slow down, Mary! You're too close! Mary Jackson: He said to follow him. Hurry up, Dorothy, before he changes his mind. Katherine Johnson: Oh, we wouldn't want to trouble you- Mary Jackson: That would be wonderful, Officer. State Trooper: Hell, least I can do is give you an escort. You need a tow or somethin'? Dorothy Vaughan: No, thank you, Officer. Mary Jackson: Hard to be of service broken down on the side of the road, though. We have'ta get up there before the Commies do. State Trooper: Those boys are the best we got. State Trooper: Alan Shepard? John Glenn? Katherine Johnson: We work with those gentlemen all the time. You girls ever meet those astronauts? The Mercury Seven? Mary Jackson: Absolutely. State Trooper: Damn Russians are watching us right now. Dorothy Vaughan: There are quite a few women working in the Space Program. State Trooper: All three of ya? Mary Jackson: Yes, Officer. Dorothy Vaughan: We do a great deal of the calculating getting our rockets into space. State Trooper: You have identification on ya? Katherine: We sure do. State Trooper: You bein' disrespectful? Mary Jackson: No, sir. Mary Jackson: We didn't pick the place, Officer, it picked us. Levi Jackson: Civil rights ain't always civil.ĭialogue State Trooper: Not a great place for the three of y'all to be havin' car trouble.Whoever gets there first will make the rules.We get to the peak together, or we don't get there at all.Every time we get a chance to get ahead they move the finish line.Your Honor, out of all the cases you gon' hear today, which one is gon' matter hundred years from now? Which one is gon' make you the first? So I have no choice, but to be the first, which I can't do without you, sir. I plan on being an engineer at NASA, but I can't do that without taking them classes at that all-white high school, and I can't change the color of my skin.Just 'cause it's the way, doesn't make it right, understand? Separate and equal are two different things.
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