:51:01
[Coughs] Well, you think there's only
one reason why we do things?
:51:04
[Coughs]
In a way, because of my father.
:51:07
- Your father?
- Yeah. It's...
:51:10
- Is this him?
- Yeah. Yeah.
:51:12
Well, he doesn't seem like the kind
of guy who would encourage you.
:51:14
He didn't. He tried
to get me started in his trade.
:51:18
- What did he do?
- Sewed fur coats together,
when he could find work.
:51:23
There was this... factory.
It was a sweatshop.
:51:27
Third Street and Avenue B.
:51:30
- Still remember the address?
- I will never forget that place.
:51:34
It was the only work he knew,
and he hated it.
:51:37
- But he wanted you to work in it?
- What could he do?
:51:40
Hunger allows no choice.
:51:43
[Workers Shouting
In Foreign Language]
:51:47
I'd hear him complain to my stepmother.
How he was cursed at, belittled.
:51:53
Always pushed to do more, and
denied the money he had coming.
:51:57
That was my father's world.
:51:59
It was going to be my world too...
:52:01
- except I found out something that day.
- [Gasping]
:52:04
- [Mitch] That you'd
do anything but that.
- Something else.
:52:08
It's when I learned
I had asthma.
:52:10
- [Laughing]
- 'Course, they thought
I was just a crybaby...
:52:14
- that I was scared.
- [Gasping Continues]
:52:17
They were right about my being scared,
but there was something else.
:52:20
I made a vow that I would
never do work that used people...
:52:24
that hurt them
and degraded them.
:52:27
I was never gonna make money
off the sweat and pain of others.
:52:33
- Tsk. So, in a way,
you owe your father.
- Yeah.
:52:36
My-My-My stepmother, Eva...
:52:39
- uh, she was just the opposite.
- Loz der moyekh trakhtn.
:52:41
Everything I love about
education I learned from her.
:52:45
The father of our country is?
:52:48
- [Slurping]
- [Young Morrie] Washington?
:52:50
It's what I call
the tension of opposites.
:52:53
- [Mitch] The tension of...
- [Morrie] Opposites.
:52:55
Life pulling you back
and forth like a rubber band.