Slavery quotes

“- Abu: How can you be so ungrateful?
- Djinn: Grateful? Slaves are not grateful. Not for their freedom!”
Sabu - Abu
Rex Ingram - Djinn

“Many of the fathers of the Constitution had slaves, but they wrote a document about freedom. Go figure! So you see, things are meant to change; we're all grown up now.”
Wesley Snipes - Joe

“- Mayor Bigwood: You boys will get a fair trial as God is my witness.
- Papa Joe: Is that the same God that witnessed you putting black folks into slavery and stealing Indians' land?
- Mayor Bigwood: You ought to be working on saving your black soul.
- Papa Joe: Shit. I'm working on saving my black ass.”
Paul Bartel - Mayor Bigwood
Melvin Van Peebles - Papa Joe

“Danel is our man. Lincoln freed the slaves. Mr. Danel is back in the trade and doing very well at it.”
Addison Richards - Jackson

“- David Jason: How come I like balling black chicks so much?
- John Hull: I don't know. Maybe you feel like you're fucking a slave.”
Jeff Goldblum - David Jason
Laurence Fishburne - John Hull

“We got peace with the white man as long as we do what he says.”

Al Freeman Jr. - Poppa

“Forget this Judeo-Christian bullshit. The same people that taught us virtue are the very ones who enslaved us, baby.”
Jeff Goldblum - David Jason

“- Indiana Jones: I knew the Germans had hired you, Sallah. You're the best digger in Egypt.
- Sallah: My services are entirely inconsequential to them. They hired or shanghaied every digger in Cairo. The excavation is enormous. They hire only strong backs and they pay pennies for them. It's as if the pharaohs have returned.”
Harrison Ford - Indiana Jones
John Rhys-Davies - Sallah

“He doesn't want a wife. He wants a love slave, one that he can kick around.”
Elizabeth Peña - Rosie Morales

“I ain't never been glad to see the cops before. But I was sure happy then. Happier than a runaway slave, papers and all.”
Faizon Love - Robin Harris

“- Calculus Entropy: Our families go back for hundreds of years - your great-grandparents owned my great-grandparents and that's how it all started.
- Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher: You ever heard of the emancipation proclamation?
- Calculus Entropy: Well I heard something about it, but I don't recall exactly. It didn't get too much publicity around...” (continue)(continue reading)
Cleavon Little - Calculus Entropy
Chevy Chase - Irwin 'Fletch' Fletcher

“You have enslaved him. You have placed Fester under some strange sexual spell. I respect that. But please, may we see him?”

Anjelica Huston - Morticia Addams

“We've got people in this country that can't even buy a meal! Ask a brother who's been downsized if he's gettin' any deal. Or a white boy bustin' ass till they put him in his grave, he ain't gotta be a black boy to be livin' like a slave.”
Warren Beatty - Jay Bulworth

“- Lieut. Col. Arthur Fremantle: We have so much in common, your country and mine. I earnestly hope that we shall become allies.
- Lieut. Gen. James Longstreet: Your government will never ally itself with a Confederacy that had the institution of slavery. You know that, and so do I.”
James Lancaster - Lieut. Col. Arthur Fremantle
Tom Berenger - Lieut. Gen. James Longstreet