Quotations

Joe 2022-04-23 07:01:14

1. To survive, keep a low profile. Solomon, not only to survive, but also to live.

2. I dedicate my talents to Ford to regain my freedom.

3. Black slaves under the whip of nine tails are the most efficient cotton producing countries in the world.

4. Hanging under the tree, the toes can't find the ground, otherwise they will be strangled.

5. Black Lives Matter is not expensive at all.

6. Laws change, but universal truths do not. Black people are human too, and if one day they are still treated like animals, one day you and your kind will pay the price. This country is suffering from evil.

7. The blood drawn is blurred.

8. Appointed, he lived more calmly, not even paying attention to the call of fate behind him.

9. There is no resistance, the whole process is suppressed, and the tragedy in the world.

10. Meet the Indians, the enemy of the enemy is a friend. swords drawn,

11. The unspeakable history of the American people is vividly portrayed.

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Extended Reading
  • Webster 2021-10-20 18:59:24

    Of course being a slave for 12 years is very miserable, so what if we have been slaves for 24 years here?

12 Years a Slave quotes

  • Hamilton: I'm afraid that Brown and I haven't brought you much luck. But rough waters bring smooth sailing. Eventually they do.

    Solomon Northup: So... so sorry...

    Hamilton: Shhh. We won't hear it. We won't.

    Brown: Let him sleep.

    Hamilton: Hmm. A good night's sleep. And tomorrow... tomorrow you will feel as well and refreshed as though the earth were new again.

    Brown: Hamilton! Nothing more we can do for him.

    Hamilton: Such is the pity.

  • Burch: Well, my boy, how yah feel now?

    Solomon Northup: I am Solomon Northup. I am a free man; a resident of Saratoga, New York. The residence also of my wife and children who are equally free. I have papers. You have no right whatsoever to detain me...

    Burch: Yah not any...

    Solomon Northup: And I promise you - I promise - upon my liberation I will have satisfaction for this wrong.

    Burch: Resolve this. Produce your papers.

    [Solomon searches and finds no papers]

    Burch: Yah no free man. And yah ain't from Saratoga. Yah from Georgia. Yah ain't a free man. Yah nuthin' but a Georgia runaway. Yah a runaway nigger from Georgia.