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- Slave! Slave!
- Born a slave, I won my freedom.

9 seconds sound clip from the The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 01:51:44.841 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- You have greeted me as a soldier, who came in small triumph from the wars. And I thank you for it.

- But you will have a hard decision to make here today! And it must not be I as a soldier swayed your vote.

- I ask, therefore, of Caesar, that a man who is neither soldier nor senator, but a philosopher, a man of reason, be permitted to speak for me.

- Fellow Romans!

- Greek! Greek!

- Born a Greek, I became a Roman by choice.

- Slave! Slave!

- Born a slave, I won my freedom.

- Fellow Romans.

- I am a teacher, and as a teacher I know that when I have tried to teach the same lesson for a hundred times, and still the pupil does not understand, then I am forced to the conclusion that perhaps there's something wrong, either with the lesson, or with

- A hundred times we have taught those we have called barbarians what it means to make war with Rome.

- We've burned their villages, we've crucified their leaders, we've enslaved their young.

- Fires go out, the dead are buried, the slaves die, slowly. But their hatred that we leave behind us never dies!

[...]

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The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964) Sound Clip

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Memorable quotes from the 1964 film The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964), with sound clips in WAV and MP3 formats.

Actors: Alec Guinness (Marcus Aurelius), Christopher Plummer (Commodus), Sophia Loren (Lucilla), Stephen Boyd (Livius), James Mason (Timonides)

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