Trust me that as I ignore all law to help the slave, so will I ignore it all to protect an enslaved woman.

Avoidance doesn’t solve anything; it merely serves as a temporary salve.

“Slavery received, but the prejudice to which it has given birth remains stationary.”

“Slavery...dishonors labor. It introduces idleness into society, and with idleness, ignorance and pride, luxury and distress. It enervates the powers of the mind and benumbs the activity of man.”

“It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights — the 'right' to education, the 'right' to health care, the 'right' to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery — hay and a barn for human cattle.”

“Lean Freedom is Better than Fat Slavery "

Therefore, the Negro nation are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because [Negroes] have little [that is essentially] human and have attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals, as we have stated.

Finance is a slave's word.

MAN is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. One thinks himself the master of others, and still remains a greater slave than they.

I didn't have a knee-jerk reaction like some people did to the language and the violence. My stepfather was a history teacher at Lincoln High School in Dallas. So, I was already familiar with the N-word and the brutality of slavery. What I was drawn to was the love story between Django and Broomhilda and how he defends and gets the girl in the end. I thought it was just an amazing and courageous project.

With Django Unchained, when you're dealing with slavery, it's like a gymnastics routine with the highest amount of difficulty. Quentin Tarantino is not going to do a movie that's just going to lay there and be safe. There's going to be twists and flips.

I play a slave. How black is that? I have to wear chains. How whack is that? But don’t worry. I get free. I save my wife and I kill all the white people in the movie. How great is that?

“May my Lord not make me enslaved to my ego and befriend the satan.”

"You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination."

"The Prisoner All right, Go ahead! What's in a name? I guess I'll be locked into As much as I'm locked out of!"

"Whatever I had read as a child about the saints had thrilled me. I could see the nobility of giving one's life for the sick, the maimed, the leper. But there was another question in my mind. Why was so much done in remedying the evil instead of avoiding it in the first place? Where were the saints to try to change the social order, not just to minister to the slaves, but to do away with slavery?"

"When one person is enslaved, we're all enslaved."

"We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in."

"Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path."

"Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians... and of all the Hellenic peoples, join your fellow-soldiers and entrust yourselves to me, so that we can move against the barbarians and liberate ourselves from the Persian bondage, for as Greeks we should not be slaves to barbarians."

“Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.”

“Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.”

“If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.”

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.”