“12 Years A Slave” quotes
(2013)
Steve McQueen
directed this movie
in 2013
Title 12 Years A Slave
Original title 12 Years a Slave
Year 2013
Director Steve McQueen
Genre Drama, History, Biography
Original title 12 Years a Slave
Year 2013
Director Steve McQueen
Genre Drama, History, Biography
Plot – New York, 1841. Solomon Northup is a young African-American violinist who's approached by two men who pretend to be circus promoters. However he's taken to Washington where he's beaten and drugged, then he is sold as a slave and sent to work in the cotton fields in Louisiana. His sufferings last 12 years, during which he faces violence, starvation, hard work and humiliation. He will be saved by a chance meeting.
All actors – Chiwetel Ejiofor, Dwight Henry, Dickie Gravois, Bryan Batt, Ashley Dyke, Kelsey Scott, Quvenzhané Wallis, Cameron Zeigler, Tony Bentley, Scoot McNairy, Taran Killam, Christopher Berry, Bill Camp, Mister Mackey Jr., Chris Chalk, Craig Tate, Adepero Oduye, Storm Reid, Tom Proctor, Marc Macaulay, Vivian Fleming-Alvarez, Michael Kenneth Williams, Douglas M. Griffin, John McConnell, Marcus Lyle Brown, Richard Holden, Rob Steinberg, Paul Giamatti, Anwan Glover, Benedict Cumberbatch, James C. Victor, Liza J. Bennett, Nicole Collins, J.D. Evermore, Paul Dano, Michael Fassbender, Sarah Paulson, Lupita Nyong'o, Andy Dylan, Deneen Tyler, Mustafa Harris, Gregory Bright, Austin Purnell, Thomas Francis Murphy, Andre De'Sean Shanks, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Scott Michael Jefferson, Alfre Woodard, Isaiah Jackson, Garret Dillahunt, Topsy Chapman, Devin Maurice Evans, Brad Pitt, Jay Huguley, Devyn A. Tyler, Willo Jean-Baptiste, , Jason Ament, Jon Arthur, Sean Paul Braud, Blake Burt, Carroll Burt, Joseph Randy Causin, Edward J. Clare, JJ Coker, Haylie Creppel, Robert D'Arensbourg, Emily D. Haley, Mark Anthony Hardin, Mark Joyce, John C. Klein, Cynthia LeBlanc, Elton LeBlanc, Gerard 'Jerry' Lewis, Allen Gibson Mann, Kevonte Mcdonald, Ritchie Montgomery, Myesha-Tiara, Jason Owen, Shawn Parsons, Haley Powell, Wayne Pére, Terrell Ransom Jr., Erin Rementer, Andre Robinson, Katherine Jeanie Russell, Jarett Shorts, Chaz Smith, Tyler Soerries, Tre Tureaud, Justin Christopher Vaughn, Bob Walker, Caroline Grace Williamson, Timothy Wyant
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“In his own time, the Good Lord will manage them all. The curse of the pharonas was a poor example of what waits for the plantation class.”
“- Mistress Epps: You will remove that black bitch from this property, or I'll take myself back to Cheneyville.
- Edwin Epps: Back to the hogs's trough where I found you? Do not set yourself against Patsy, my dear. Because I will rid myself of you well before I do away with her.”“- Bass: You say that with pride.
- Edwin Epps: I say it as fact.”“If this conversation concerns what is factual and what is not, then it must be said that there is no justice nor righteousness in their slavery.”
“Survival is not about certain death, it is about keeping your head down.”
“I will not fall into despair! I will keep myself hardy until freedom is opportune!”
“- Bass: What amused me just then was your concern for my wellbeing in this heat when, quite frankly, the condition of your laborers...
- Edwin Epps: The condition of my laborers?
- Bass: It is horrid.
- Edwin Epps: They ain't hired help. They're my property.”“There is an ill, Mr. Epps. A fearful ill resting upon this nation. And there will be a day of reckoning yet.”
“I apologize for my appearance. But I have had a difficult time these past several years.”
“I don't want to survive. I want to live.”
“- Edwin Epps: You comparing me to a nigger, Bass?
- Bass: I'm only asking, in the eyes of God, what is the difference?”“I did as instructed. If there's something wrong, it's wrong with the instructions!”
“Whatever your circumstances, you are an exceptional nigger, Platt.”
“I am Solomon Northup. I am a free man; a resident of Saratoga, New York. The residence also of my wife and children who are equally free. I have papers. You have no right whatsoever to detain me... and I promise you, upon my liberation, I will have satisfaction for this wrong.”
“- Bass: What right have you to your niggers?
- Edwin Epps: I bought 'em. I paid for 'em.”“- Solomon Northup: You devil! Sooner or later, somewhere in the course of eternal justice thou shalt answer for this sin!
- Edwin Epps: There is no sin! A man does how he pleases with his property.”“I will write your letter, sir. And if it brings you your freedom, it will be more than a pleasure. It will have been my duty.”
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