do you think we know when the line "get your filthy paws off me" was first said in popular media?

 Oh. duh.

Charlton Heston said "take your stinking paws off me, you damn dirty ape." in Planet of the Apes.

duh.

But then you look and they clearly have hands

 So that line was really uncalled for.

There's a lot of things that were said and done in the past that we in the present have to make amends for. 

And a lot of things being done in the present right now that the future will have to make amends for.

Maybe we can start--I have the microphone that can speak to all of humanity at once--maybe we can start by acknowledging that this man was under extreme fictional duress and he didn't really mean what he said in that moment. I don't know if they circle back to it later in the movie. I haven't seen it.