[first title card] Title card: Sierra Leone, 1999 Title card: Civil war rages for control of the diamond fields. Title card: Thousands have died and millions have become refugees. Title card: None of whom has ever seen a diamond.
Solomon Vandy: [out of breath] He is my son. I am his father. I must go find him. Go ahead, shoot me if you want, but I will go find him.
[last lines] Ambassador Walker: The Third World is not a world apart... and the witness you will hear today speaks on its behalf. Let us hear the voice of that world. Let us learn from that voice... and let us ignore it no more. Ladies and gentlemen,...
Maddy Bowen: The world is falling apart and all we hear about is blowjob-gate. Danny Archer: When was the last time the world wasn't falling apart, huh? Maddy Bowen: Uh, a cynic. Why don't you sit down and make me miserable?
[to Maddy Bowen] Danny Archer: You come here with your laptop computers, your malaria medicine and you little bottles of hand sanitizer and think you can change the outcome, huh?
Danny Archer: You risk my life like that again... and I'll peel your face back off your head. You understand?
Danny Archer: That diamond is my ticket out of this God forsaken continent.
[first lines] Solomon Vandy: Dia. Dia. Don't want to be late. Dia Vandy: English boys don't go to school every day.
Danny Archer: So, don't tell me you're here to make a difference, huh? Maddy Bowen: And you're here to make a buck? Danny Archer: I'm here for lack of a better idea. Maddy Bowen: That's a shame.
Maddy Bowen: You lost both your parents. Danny Archer: That's a polite way of putting it, ja. Mum was raped and shot and uh... Dad was decapitated and hung from a hook in the barn. I was nine... boo-hoo right?
Captain Poison: Young man, young man, listen to me. The gov'mint wants you to vote. They say "the future is in your hands." We now the future. So we take your hands! No more hands, no more voting!
Solomon Vandy: I thought you would steal it from me. Danny Archer: Yeah, yeah, it occured to me, huh?
Danny Archer: Without me you're just another black man in Africa.
Prostitute: I'm safe, huh. No HIV. Danny Archer: Ja, ja. I've heard that one before.
Soldier: Archer! You're a dead man! Danny Archer: Ja, ja.
Solomon Vandy: I will find you... If it takes my life.
[last title card] Title card: In January 2003, forty nations signed "The Kimberley Process" - an effort to stem the flow of conflict diamonds. Title card: But illegal diamonds are still finding their way to market. It is up to the consumer to insist ...
Danny Archer: Out here, people kill each other as a way of life. It's always been like that.
