Slavery quotes

“I think it's romantic to work for free, it's like a Cinderella situation!”
Jessica Coles - Arielle

“God made men. Men made slaves.”
John Derek - Joshua

“Pain is pleasure! Slavery is freedom! Suicide for Satan!”
Maggie Gyllenhaal - Raven

“- Jean-Luc Picard: If your issues are with me, then deal with me. This has nothing to do with my ship, nothing to do with the Federation!
- Shinzon: Oh, but it does. We will no longer bow before anyone as slaves. Not the Romulans and not your mighty Federation. We are a race bred for war... and conquest.”
Sir Patrick Stewart - Jean-Luc Picard
Tom Hardy - Shinzon

“My people did not go through 362 years of slavery just so you could send us back to the cotton fields with $500 chips!”

Chris Tucker - Carter

“He had chaos and civil war and hatred between the races. Sometimes I go to the Lincoln room at the White House and just pray. But you know, liberals act like idealism belongs to them. That's not true. My family went Republican because Lincoln freed the slaves. My grandmother was an abolitionist, those Quakers who founded Whittier, my hometown......” (continue)(continue reading)

Philip Anthony Hopkins - Richard M. Nixon

“- Jean Villeneuve: [to the slave Occam] Here. A proper musket for you.
- Dan Scott: I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't like the idea of giving muskets to slaves.
- Jean Villeneuve: Your sense of freedom is as pale as your skin.”
Tchéky Karyo - Jean Villeneuve
Donal Logue - Dan Scott

“For you who were slaves with me, it means that we're no longer slaves, that we once more have a home and a country. For you who are English it means a chance to fight for your native land.”

Errol Flynn - Peter Blood

“Abolishing slavery by constitutional provisions settles the fate for all coming time. Not only of the millions now in bondage, but of unborn millions to come.”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Abraham Lincoln

“I can't accomplish a goddamn thing of any worth until we cure ourselves of slavery and end this pestilential war!”
Daniel Day-Lewis - Abraham Lincoln

“- Santanico Pandemonium: Welcome to slavery.
- Richard Gecko: No thanks, I already had a wife.”
Salma Hayek - Santanico Pandemonium
Quentin Tarantino - Richard Gecko

“Over yonder, they do not love your flesh. Oh, my people... they do not love your hands. Those, they only use, tie, bind, chop off and leave empty! Love your hands! Raise them up, and kiss them.”
Beah Richards - Baby Suggs

“Like so many others, I had become a slave to the Ikea nesting instinct.”
Edward Norton - The Narrator

“- Johnny 5: Fred wants to sell me?'!
- Fred Ritter: Oh, J-5, c'mon, it's just a figure of speech.
- Johnny 5: Am not property, Frederick! One whose person is under control of another as master, is a slave!
- Woman at building: That's all we need: A robot who's into equal rights.”
Tim Blaney - Johnny 5
Michael McKean - Fred Ritter

“Slavery never really ended in this country. It just gave it another name... employee.”
Sean Penn - Samuel J. Bicke

“- Mr. Fulford: You got a good steady job here Cooper, plenty of young men would give their eye-teeth to be in your shoes.
- Jimmy: Oh yeah! Well find one then.
- Mr. Fulford: I beg your pardon?
- Jimmy: You heard. I said find one then. Yeah I'll tell you what you can do with your eye-teeth and your job, you can take the mail and the franking...” (continue)(continue reading)
Benjamin Whitrow - Mr. Fulford
Phil Daniels - Jimmy

“My great great great granddaddy was a pimp and a slave. He would have his hoes out in the field picking his cotton for him, he didn't have to do a goddamn thing!”
Chris Tucker - Skip

“- Giovanni: You were created by humans to obey humans. You could never be our equal.
- Mewtwo: Humans may have created me, but they will never enslave me! This cannot be my destiny!”
Ted Lewis - Giovanni
Jay Goede - Mewtwo

“The Red Man ain't got no problem with the Black Man. As for you, White Boy, that's a whole different story. I mean, first you enslave the Black Man, exploit the Yellow Man, and then you kill off the Red Man so you can snatch up his land for railroads.”

Big Daddy Kane - Father Time

“- William Wallace: A lordship and titles. Gold. That I should become Judas?
- Princess Isabelle: Peace is made in such ways.
- William Wallace: Slaves are made in such ways.”
Mel Gibson - William Wallace
Sophie Marceau - Princess Isabelle

“Can you understand what that means to all the occupied countries? To enslaved people, having it drummed into their ears that the Germans are masters of the Earth.”

Googie Withers - Jo de Vries

“I'm saying very plainly that the Yankees are better equipped than we. They've got factories, shipyards, coalmines... and a fleet to bottle up our harbors and starve us to death. All we've got is cotton, and slaves and... arrogance.”

Clark Gable - Rhett Butler - Visitor from Charleston

Oh, to be free! Not to have to go "Poof! What do you need?", "Poof! What do you need?", "Poof! What do you need?" to be my own master. Such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in all the world!
Robin Williams - The Genie

“They are dismantling the sleeping middle class. More and more people are becoming poor. We are their cattle. We are being bred for slavery.”
John Lawrence - Bearded Man

“- Marlak: Stay away from my woman.
- Zed: Not gonna be possible, Marlak. She's not your woman. You can't own people. Except for the guy who bought all of us. Apparently, he can.”
Matthew Willig - Marlak
Jack Black - Zed