36 Movie Quotes about Slaves (+ Sound Clips)

Updated: Aug 15, 2025

Memorable quotes about slaves, selected from famous or less known movies by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning that all glory is fleeting.

George C. Scott as General George Patton in Patton (1970)

2 I am surprised at how well you handle them. See, I am from Kentucky originally and we owned a few ourselves, so it comes naturally to me.

Matthew Broderick as Colonel Robert Gould Shaw in Glory (1989)

3 Smart-mouth, stupid-_, swamp-running nigger. If you ain't careful, that's all you ever gonna be.

Morgan Freeman as Sergeant Major John Rawlins in Glory (1989)

4 Repeal the 14th and 20th Amendment. Take the vote away from the women, make slaves out of them.

Dean Martin as Sam Harmon in Ocean's 11 (1960)

5 Slaves are wealth, Commander. The more slaves we have, the more bricks we make.

Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956)

6 With so many slaves, you could build... an army. -But I have built a city.

Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956)

7 What is there in the mud of these slave pits that could keep you from my arms? -My people.

Charlton Heston as Moses; Anne Baxter as Nefretiri in The Ten Commandments (1956)

8 The evil that men should turn their brothers into beasts of burden, to slave and suffer in dumb anguish, to be stripped of spirit and hope and faith, only because they're of another race, another creed.

Charlton Heston as Moses in The Ten Commandments (1956)

9 Laughter? I will turn the laughter of these slaves into wails of torment!

Yul Brynner as Ramses Ii in The Ten Commandments (1956)

10 Wait, I get you. I gotta be nicer to my slave labor, right? Chubby over there. I thought so. Say no more. I'll treat him with kid gloves.

Mel Blanc as Daffy Duck in Daffy Duck's Quackbusters

36 Movie Quotes about Slaves (+ Sound Clips)

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