BACON

Gentlemen, I want you to make an investment here.  An investment in steam control.

KRAMER

Steam control?

BACON

That’s right.  Steam control.  Because a righteous steam is building up in the souls of my people and that steam is ready to blow.

KRAMER

I see.   Well…

BACON

Now, on judgment day, I am your safety valve.  Because when it blows — and it will, my friend — how grateful you will be that I am on your side — the one nigger who can control the steam and save your lily white ass from being burned off the face of the earth, so to speak.

Bonfire of the Vanities
Novel by Tom Wolfe
Movie script (above) by Michael Cristofer

“My administration,” the president added, “is the only thing between you and the pitchforks.”

Same message, same source, different metaphor.

You fight them,
even if it is hopeless,
because they are evil.

AMDG