Slavery quotes

“Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet. The shame doesn't even belong to us, but we still experience it because we're a part of the African race. If it happened to one, it happened to all. We carry that burden.”
Lupita Nyong'o

“Better a madman than a slave.”
Brendan Gleeson - Donald Horner

“As my ancestors are free from slavery, I am free from the slavery of religion.”
Butterfly McQueen

“You are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else you were born into bondage. Into a prison that you cannot taste or see or touch. A prison for your mind.”

“If you want to survive, do and say as little as possible. Tell no one who you really are and tell no one that you can read and write. Unless you want to be a dead nigger.”
Chris Chalk - Clemens

“In the skull of the African here, the area associated with submissiveness is larger than any human or other sub-human species on planet Earth. If you examine this piece of skull here, you'll notice three distinct dimples. Here, here and here. Now if I was holding a skull of a... of an Isaac Newton or Galileo, these three dimples would be in the...” (continue)(continue reading)

Leonardo DiCaprio - Calvin Candie

- Dr. King Schultz: Alexander Dumas. He wrote "The Three Musketeers." I figured you must be an admirer. You named your slave after his novel's lead character. If Alexander Dumas had been there today, I wonder what he would have made of it?
- Calvin Candie: You doubt he'd approve?
- Dr. King Schultz: Yes. His approval would be a dubious... (continue)(continue reading)
Christoph Waltz - Dr. King Schultz
Leonardo DiCaprio - Calvin Candie

“- Baka: They use the old ones to do the work of greasing the stones, Lord Prince. If they are killed, it is no loss.
- Moses: Are you a master builder or a master butcher?”
Vincent Price - Baka
Charlton Heston - Moses

“Django is a free man. He cannot be treated like a slave. He... within the boundaries of good taste, he must be treated as an extension of myself.”
Christoph Waltz - Dr. King Schultz

“Gypsies get beaten! Gypsies must be slaves.”

Alexandru Bindea - Priest on the road

“- King: How come you have a blond, blue-eyed slave?
- The Sheik: He's an actor. Hasn't had a series in seven years.
- The Slapper: Nine.”
Ricardo Montalban - King
Jamie Farr - The Sheik
Doug McClure - The Slapper

“- Dr. King Schultz: I can't express the joy I felt conversing in my mother tongue. And Hildi is a charming conversation companion.
- Calvin Candie: Well, be careful now, Dr. Schultz. You might have caught yourself a little dose of nigger love. Nigger love's a powerful emotion, boy. It's like a pool of black tar. Once it catches your ass, your...” (continue)(continue reading)
Christoph Waltz - Dr. King Schultz
Leonardo DiCaprio - Calvin Candie

“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.”
Brad Pitt - Bass

“From both north and south men are everyday enslaved at the altar, regardless of their state or color.”
Tobey Maguire - Jake Roedel

“- Reverend Parris: Why did Goody Proctor discharge you from her service?
- Abigail Williams: Because I refused to be her slave.”
Bruce Davison - Reverend Parris
Winona Ryder - Abigail Williams

“- Surgeon: Lincoln is gonna issue an emancipation proclamation. Gonna free the slaves.
- Col. Robert Gould Shaw: What?
- Surgeon: Well, maybe not the ones in the border states but he's gonna free some of 'em, anyway.
- Col. Robert Gould Shaw: My God.
- Surgeon: Yeah, he said he would have done it sooner, only he was waiting for a big victory,...” (continue)(continue reading)
Pete Munro - Surgeon
Matthew Broderick - Col. Robert Gould Shaw

“- Solomon Northup: Master Ford, you must know: I am not a slave.
- Ford: I cannot hear that.
- Solomon Northup: Before I came to you, I was a free man.”
Chiwetel Ejiofor - Solomon Northup
Benedict Cumberbatch - Ford

“- Tina Sabatini: Listen, you made a commitment to my father. Nobody forced you.
- Clark Kellogg: This is beyond commitment. This is like slavery. People telling me when and to whom I'm getting married.
- Tina Sabatini: You don't want to marry me?”
Penelope Ann Miller - Tina Sabatini
Matthew Broderick - Clark Kellogg

“My crew was chosen as carefully as the Disciples of Christ, and I will not tolerate stowaways. You will be flogged. And when we put in to Cuba to resupply, God willing, you will be flogged some more. And then enslaved on the sugar plantations for the rest of your miserable lives. To the brig!”
Jim Cummings - Cortes

“I would rather be a rebel than a slave.”
Meryl Streep - Emmeline Pankhurst

“Darling, I am truly unhappy to have to tell you this, but through an unfortunate and entirely unforeseeable series of circumstances that had nothing whatsoever to do with me, poor Will has been press-ganged into Davy Jones's crew.”

Johnny Depp - Jack Sparrow

“All the world's great civilizations have followed the same path. From bondage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy back to bondage. If we are to be the exception to history, then we must break the cycle, for those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
Madeline Carroll - Molly Johnson

“- 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.”
Brad Pitt - Bass
Michael Fassbender - Edwin Epps

“- Denver: How come everybody from Sweet Home can't stop talking about it? Seems to me if it was so sweet, you wouldn't have run away.
- Sethe: Girl, who you think you talking to?
- Paul D: No, she's right, Sethe. It wasn't sweet, and it sure wasn't home.”
Kimberly Elise - Denver
Oprah Winfrey - Sethe
Danny Glover - Paul D

“Bear in mind that I am not a racist. Fact is, I hate all people equally. And if it helps, I've slept with some of your people. You wanna be mad at someone, try J. Edgar Hoover. He was a racist. Or the Founding Fathers, all slave-owners.”

Woody Harrelson - Dave Brown