WE WILL NOT GO SILENT INTO THE NIGHT

WE WILL NOT GO WITHOUT A FIGHT

DO YOU BELIEVE THIS MOVEMENT AND WW EVENTS ARE SIMPLY A COINCIDENCE?

DIVIDED YOU ARE WEAK.

TOGETHER YOU ARE STRONG.

WE, THE PEOPLE.

WE, THE PEOPLE, HAVE THE POWER.

EO ACTIVE.

WHERE WE GO ONE, WE GO ALL!!!

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President Thomas Whitmore speech in Independence Day

“Good morning. In less than an hour, aircraft from here will join others from around the world. And you will be launching the largest aerial battle in the history of mankind.”

“‘Mankind.’ That word should have new meaning for all of us today. We can’t be consumed by our petty differences anymore. We will be united in our common interests. Perhaps it’s fate that today is the Fourth of July, and you will once again be fighting for our freedom … Not from tyranny, oppression, or persecution … but from annihilation. We are fighting for our right to live. To exist.”

“And should we win the day, the Fourth of July will no longer be known as an American holiday, but as the day the world declared in one voice: ‘

We will not go quietly into the night! We will not vanish without a fight!

We’re going to live on! We’re going to survive!’ Today we celebrate our Independence Day!”

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“We will not go quietly into the night” seems to be a reference to Dylan Thomas’ classic poem “Do not go gentle into that good night,” though Devlin and Emmerich haven’t ever mentioned it. Interestingly, the poem is recited in full in Interstellar, a movie that’s about humans trekking to other planets, rather than the other way around.

The filming of the scene was shot in front of the hanger that once housed the Enola Gay, one of the bombers that dropped the atomic bombs on Japan on Aug. 6, 1945. The scene was filmed exactly 50 years later.