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Which character in "Lean on Me" said...

So you think you are a fan of "Lean on Me." Let's see how well you know it. Match the following lines with the characters that spoke them. Can you get them all right?

  1. I want all of you to take a good look at these people on the risers behind me. These people have been here up to five years and done absolutely nothing. These people are drug dealers and drug users. They have taken up space. They have disrupted this school. They have harassed your teachers. And they have intimidated you. Well, times are about to change. You will not be bothered in Joe Clark's school. These people are incorrigible. And since none of them could graduate anyway, [Turns to the troublemakers on stage] you are all expurgated. You are dismissed! You are out of here, forever. I wish you well!

  2. [To Leonna Bennett] Vote on this, bitch!

  3. [to Kid Ray, who is leaving school to work for a crime syndicate] You'll be dead in a year, son. Hear what I'm saying? You'll be dead in a year!

  4. Mr. Mayor, on behalf of myself and behalf on the students of Eastside High, you can tell the State to go to hell!

  5. We don't want a good principal! We want Mr. Clark!

  6. [With a baseball bat in his hand] They used to call me Crazy Joe. Well now they can call me Batman!

  7. [speaking to Clark] Brother, I will go through the... fire with you! But you are not taking over. This shit you're pulling now, you've just gone plain loco!

  8. [Addressing students] They said this school was dead. Like the cemetery it's built on. But we call our Eastside teams 'Ghosts,' don't we? And what are ghosts? Ghosts are spirits that rise from the dead. I want you to be my ghosts.

  9. [at school assembly before the skills test] And I've got a message out there for those people who have abandoned you and written you off. You are NOT inferior. Your grades may be. Your school may have been. But you can turn all that around and make liars out of those bastards in exactly one hour, when you take that test, pass it, and win!

  10. The Lord said, do whatever you have to do. And he didn't say "Joe, be polite."

  11. [at teachers meeting] You know why you're being demoted, Mr. Darnell? Because I'm sick and tired of our football team getting pushed all over the field. Thank you, sit down. I want PRECISION. I want a weight program. And if you don't like it, Mr. Darnell, you can quit. Same goes for the rest of you. You've tried it your way for years. And your students can't even get past the minimum basic skills test. That means they can HARDLY READ!

  12. [to Joe] It's like you're a Big Bird with radar. And I'm tired of getting hit!