Quotes and Sayings about Slavery

People learn to love their chains.

Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones - Season 3 Episode 10

Freedom

In the end, what seperates a man from a slave? Money? Power? No, a man chooses, a slave obeys.

Andrew Ryan in BioShock

Power

Colonialism is the cousin of slavery.

Chadwick Boseman

Colonialism

Death is better than slavery.

Harriet Ann Jacobs

Freedom

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.

Askeladd in Vinland Saga

Quite an experience to live in fear, isn't it? That's what it is to be a slave.

Roy Batty in Blade Runner

A species that enslaves other beings is hardly superior - mentally or otherwise.

James T. Kirk in Star Trek - Season 2 Episode 16

No one is more enslaved than a slave who doesn't think they're enslaved.

Kate Beckinsale

Dubai accomplished that boom through lots of hard work... by slaves.

Jan Böhmermann (ZDF Magazin Royale) - vom 12.02.2021

Dubai

Slavery exists. It is black in the South, and white in the North.

Andrew Johnson

Every red stripe in that flag represents the black man's blood that has been shed.

Fannie Lou Hamer

USA

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

Edmund Burke

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This is how liberty dies - with thunderous applause!

Padmé Amidala in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Freedom

Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

Bob Marley

Freedom

Fight and you may die. Run, and you'll live... at least a while. And dying in your beds, many years from now, would you be willin' to trade ALL the days, from this day to that, for one chance, just one chance, to come back here and tell our enemies that they may take our lives, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM!

William Wallace in Braveheart

Freedom War Speeches

It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.

Call of Duty - Modern Warfare 2

Freedom

It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.

Tyler Durden in Fight Club

Freedom

It was right then that I started thinking about Thomas Jefferson, the Declaration of Independence and the part about our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. And I remember thinking: How did he know to put the pursuit part in there? That maybe happiness is something that we can only pursue. And maybe we can actually never have it, no matter what. How did he know that?

Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness

Thomas Jefferson Declaration of Independence Happiness Freedom

Men must be free to do what they believe. It is not our right to punish one for thinking what they do, no matter how much we disagree.

Assassin's Creed

Human Rights Freedom Opinions

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

George Orwell in Animal Farm

Freedom Hearing & Listening

But only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be.

John Keating in Dead Poets Society

Dreaming Freedom

Some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone.

Ellis Boyd "Red" Redding in The Shawshank Redemption

Freedom Birds

So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms - all of them - may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth.

Rod Serling

Writing Freedom Journalism

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Isaac Newton

Human Rights Freedom Brücken

We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

Boris Yeltsin

Freedom Satisfaction Breathing Air

With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably.

Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek - Season 4 Episode 21

Human Rights Freedom Censorship

Zimbabwe will never be a colony again.

Robert Mugabe

Colonialism Zimbabwe

The next time you raise a hand to me will be the last time you have hands.

Daenerys Targaryen in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 4

Hands

To build a city at the bottom of the sea? Insanity. But where else could we be free from the clutching hand of the Parasites? Where else could we build an economy that they would not try to control, a society that they would not try to destroy? It was not impossible to build Rapture at the bottom of the sea. No. It was impossible to build it anywhere else.

BioShock

Remember, with great power. comes great responsibility!

Uncle Ben in Spider-Man

Power Responsibility Strength

The struggles along the way are only meant to shape you for your purpose.

Chadwick Boseman

Motivation Fighting

God judges men by their hearts, not by the color of their skins.

Harriet Ann Jacobs - Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Tolerance Racism Skin

A fight you can't win becomes an obsession.

Askeladd in Vinland Saga

Fighting

The world, God's divine creation, Is so brimming with love, Yet there is no love in the hearts of men.

Canute in Vinland Saga

The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long.

Eldon Tyrell in Blade Runner

It's time you learned that freedom is never a gift. It has to be earned.

James T. Kirk in Star Trek - Season 1 Episode 21

Feeling attractive didn't come until I was 29. What is it about a woman being in her late 30s that brings out the "Oh, my gosh, are you worried?"-questions? Worried? What about? 38, 39, 40, 50! Great! Still alive!

Kate Beckinsale

Age

This is the end of Wladimir Putin.

Jan Böhmermann - February 2022

Vladimir Putin Russia-Ukraine War

I want to finish with dignity so in a good club. It doesn't mean that to go USA or Qatar or Dubai is not good but I don't see myself there.

Cristiano Ronaldo - November 2015

Dubai

The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.

Andrew Johnson

If I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off.

Fannie Lou Hamer

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don’t care for human beings.

Nelson Mandela

USA

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke

Revolution Motivation Good & Evil

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