Slavery quotes

“Fuck the uptown brothers. They never pass the ball, they don't want to play defense, they take five steps on every lay-up to the hoop. And then they want to turn around and blame everything on the white man. Slavery ended one hundred and thirty seven years ago. Move the fuck on!”
Edward Norton - Monty Brogan

“- Jake: A wedding is a peculiar thing.
- Jack Bull Chiles: No more peculiar, Jake, than slavery.”
Tobey Maguire - Jake Roedel
Skeet Ulrich - Jack Bull Chiles

“Are my eyes blind that I must fall to my knees to worship a maniac who has made of my country a concentration camp, who has made of my people slaves? Must I kiss the hand that beats me, lick the boot that kicks me, no!”
J. Carrol Naish - Giuseppe

“You know, I always wanted to meet a white man by the name of Brown. You know what this is? It's a slave collar, and the white man made my mothers and fathers wear this to bend them to his will. Can I bend you to my will, Mr. Brown?”

Peter De Jersey - Michael X

“- James West: I thought I'd go as a government agent who's going to shoot and kill General Bloodbath McGrath.
- Artemus Gordon: An armed Negro cowboy costume in a room full of white, Southern, former slave-owners. You'll win first prize.”

Will Smith - James West
Kevin Kline - Artemus Gordon

“The man and woman who were born here gave birth to this generation. They were slaves. They worked this ground, but they bought it from the widow of the slave owner and that's the kind of blood we have running - though - our veins.”
Cicely Tyson - Myrtle

“- Hephaistion: Some say these Alexandrias have become extensions of Alexander himself. They draw people into the cities so as to make slaves.
- Alexander: But we've freed them, Hephaistion, from the Persias, where everyone lived as slaves! To free the people of the world! Such would be beyond the glory of Achilles. Beyond Heracles!”
Jared Leto - Hephaistion
Colin Farrell - Alexander

“The town we lived in was named after a slave. It was said that when General John Paul Batiste was stricken with cholera, his life was saved by the powerful medicine of an African slave woman called Eve. In return for his life, he freed her, and gave her this piece of land by the Bayou. Perhaps in gratitude, she bore him sixteen children. We are...” (continue)(continue reading)

Tamara Tunie - Narrator

“You think like a prisoner. You're white as snow and you think like a slave.”

Harry Lennix - Mrs. Silk

“- Rose: You have to help me. I can't take it. What can I do?
- Lucien Cordier: How the hell do I know? Any idiot can see they were shot with your gun.
- Rose: But that's horrible!
- Lucien Cordier: At first it is horrible. But then you start to think about starving kids, little girls sold into slavery, women whose sex is sewn up... God created...” (continue)(continue reading)

Isabelle Huppert - Rose Mercaillou
Philippe Noiret - Lucien Cordier

Look at you. Is there one thing you have done that is good? Did you think this was all a game? "I will go to Africa and I will play the white man with the natives". Is that what you thought? We are not a game, Nicholas. We are real.
Forest Whitaker - Idi Amin

Last January, I finally singed Martin Whistler out on one of the rim planets. Since then, I've been hunting down the last of his murdering cult. We call them "Trancers" slaves to Whistler's psychic power. Not really alive, not dead enough. It's July now, and I'm tired. Real tired.
Tim Thomerson - Jack Deth

- Customer in Hairdressers: What's that book you're reading, love?
- Rita: Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage".
- Customer in Hairdressers: Oh, my husband's got loads of books like that.
Marie Conmee - Customer in Hairdressers
Julie Walters - Rita

“This man is very old. You shouldn't make him work. He looks sad. Do you whip him? The day will come when you'll be free. Go to bed, little father.”

Greta Garbo - Nina Ivanovna Yakushova aka Ninotchka

Brothers act like they couldn't have been slaves back 200 years ago. It's like the motherfuckers liked that shit. "I whish I was a slave, I would fuck somebody up! Shit, tell me to bale some motherfucking cotton! I would been on the street and shit, would've come up and say, 'Ay, yo, nigger, bale this cotton!'. I would say, 'Suck my dick, massa'!".
Eddie Murphy - Eddie Murphy

“- Ed: So, uh, what kind of business are you in, Max?
- Max Burdett: I have a bunch of sweatshops in the Philippines.
- Ed: Oh.
- Sheila: Oh.
- Max Burdett: You should see those kids make those hats.”

Tom McGowan - Ed
Pierce Brosnan - Max Burdett
Kate Walsh - Sheila

“- Shmi Skywalker: All slaves have a transmitter placed somewhere in their body.
- Anakin Skywalker: I've been working on a scanner to try and locate mine.
- Shmi Skywalker: Any attempt to escape...
- Anakin Skywalker: And they blow you up! Boom!”
Pernilla August - Shmi Skywalker
Jake Lloyd - Anakin Skywalker

“We must stop saying that sabotage is wrong, that it doesn't pay. It does pay! It makes us suffer, starve, and die. But, though it increases our misery, it will shorten our slavery.”
Charles Laughton - Albert Lory

“We were engineered as slave laborers. It was our only means of pleasure allowed! The harder you worked the more you got, the more you got the harder you worked. Thousands of my people died, I lost my best friend. It is a nightmare! I will not let it happen again.”

Mandy Patinkin - Sam Francisco

“I'm blacker than you are. I got some slave in me, I can feel it.”
Billy Bob Thornton - Richard Jemmons

“Historically, there are two kinds of slaves. House Negroes and Field Negroes. The house Negro lived in the big house; he dressed pretty good; he ate pretty good and he loved the master.”
Denzel Washington - Malcolm X

“- Ed Leland: Close your eyes and tell me everything you see in the room. It's an observation test. Do you really have a problem with that?
- Linda Voss: Pictures of sailboats and polo ponies; fancy books and diplomas; stuffed fish on the wall; calendar set to the wrong date; bookcases that need dusting; carpets that need cleaning; and a couple...” (continue)(continue reading)
Michael Douglas - Ed Leland
Melanie Griffith - Linda Voss

“- Artemus Gordon: Gypsy, queen... pirate... How about this? You can come as my manservant.
- James West: Master Gordon, I swear, I'd be delghted! I sing, I dance for you sir and I swear none of the other white folks will know. I'd rather shoot myself than play your damn manservant.”

Kevin Kline - Artemus Gordon
Will Smith - James West

“This won't hurt. We just want to drain your living essence. Then you can be the same as the other Podlings here, a slave.”

Steve Whitmire - Scientist

“This is the gulag Rura Penthe. There is no stockade. No guard tower. No electronic frontier. Only a magnetic shield prevents beaming. Punishment means exile from prison, to the surface. On the surface, nothing can survive. Work well, and you will be treated well. Work badly, and you will die.”
William Morgan Sheppard - Klingon Commander