Slavery Quotes

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure when he is really selling himself a slave to it.

It's ironick, isn't it? Americans fought a war for freedom... another one to end slavery. What a Salomon choose to do with thair freedom? Become slaves.

Interstate 60

A single day of freedom is worth more than a lifetime in chains.

So this is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause.

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Padme Amidala

Freedom

— I offered water to a slave dying on the Walk of Punishment. Do you know what he said to me? "Let me die."
— There are no masters in the grave, Your Grace.

Poor, stupid slaves, he thought, while his sister talked. Small wonder the world belonged to the strong. The slaves were obsessed by their own slavery. A job was to them a golden fetich before which they fell down and worshipped.

Jack London

Martin Eden

Work

And Mr. Whittier said, “This is why Moses led the tribes of Israel into the desert. . .” Because those people had lived for generations as slaves. They’d learned to be helpless. To create a race of masters from a race of slaves, Mr. Whittier said, to teach a controlled group of people how to create their own lives, Moses had to be an asshole.

Chuck Palahniuk

Haunted

Mr. Whittier

— We don't need Yunkai, Khaleesi. Taking this city will not bring you any closer to Westeros or the lron Throne.
— How many slaνes are there in Yunkai?
— 200,000, if not more.
— Then we haνe 200,000 reasons to take the city.

— He proposes that you withdraw your attack. In return, he grants you title, estates, and this chest of gold, which I am to pay to you personally.
— A lordship and titles. Gold. That I should become Judas?
— Peace is made in such ways.
— Slaves are made in such ways!

Even slaves are allowed to pray.

Then stretches out my golden wing,
And mocks my loss of liberty.

William Blake

Freedom

— Alright, let me get this straight. Your slave wife speaks German, and her name is Brünhilde Von Schaft?
— Yep.

Django Unchained

Dr. King Schultz

Django

If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Meaningful Quotes

Look, that's pathetic. A man, slave to gold, holds a whip…And beats the slave he bought with that gold as if to claim HE is the master. He just doesn’t see it for himself. Every living human being is a slave to something.