36 Movie Quotes about Slaves (Sound Clips) - page 2

Last updated on: August 15, 2025

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

11 What am I doing here? What am I the slave of this grinchy old crock?

Henry Gibson as Max in Halloween Is Grinch Night (1977)

12 Crucify their leaders. Sell the rest as slaves.

Quote from The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

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

James Mason as Timonides in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

14 No, because it's no longer profitable to keep slaves. Slaves do not produce as much as free men. Let us do what is profitable, and right.

James Mason as Timonides in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

15 Equality... Freedom... Peace. Who is it that uses these words but Greeks, and Jews, and slaves?

Quote from The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)

16 Yes, master. -Master? Why, I've given you your freedom. -It's strange. I hardly felt a slave. And now, I hardly feel free.

Charlton Heston as Judah Ben Hur in Ben-Hur (1959)

17 When black folks lived in slavery, who was it set the darkie free? -Abraham. -That's right, child. Abraham.

Quote from Holiday Inn (1942)

18 Cheap slave labor. That's what the south wants to fight for.

Quote from Dark Command (1940)

19 If things continue to go badly, I wonder if I might not end my days as an outlaw leader of a band of fugitive slaves.

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

20 You are from Boston, are you not? -Yes. -It is impossible to imagine Boston with slaves.

Quote from Glory (1989)