There Are No Victims in This Classroom (Dangerous Minds 1995)

Added: 2026-05-05

[00:00:00]Nobody's forcing you to be here. You have a choice. You can stay or you can leave.

[00:00:03]>> Lady, why you playing this game? We don't have a choice. You don't have a choice? You don't have a choice on whether or not you're here? Nah. If we leave, we don't get to graduate. If we stay, we got to put up with you. Well, that's a choice, isn't it? You have a choice. You either don't graduate or you have to put up with me. It may not be a choice you like, but it is a choice.

[00:00:20]Man, you don't understand nothing. I mean, you don't come from where we live.

[00:00:24]You You're not bused here. Do you have a choice to get on that bus? Man, you come and live in my neighborhood for 1 week and then you tell me if you got a choice. There are a lot of people who live in your neighborhood who choose not to get on that bus. What do they choose to do? They choose to go out and sell drugs. They choose to go out and kill people. They choose to do a lot of other things, but they choose not to get on that bus. The people who choose to get on that bus, which are you, are the people who are saying, "I will not carry myself down to die. When I go to my grave, my head will be high." That is a choice. There are no victims in this classroom.