Abduction Quote by Ira Berlin

I didn't know anything about '12 Years a Slave.' Not the book, not Solomon Northup, which I was quite shocked by, once I'd read…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

Solomon Northup is one of the most remarkable people I've ever encountered in my life; one of the most amazing stories I have ever…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

“Reason is the beheaded king, emotion the slave revolt”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“Older forms of indentured servanthood and the bond-service of biblical times had often been harsh, but Christian abolitionists concluded that race-based, life-long chattel slavery,…

— Timothy Keller

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

— Dinesh D'Souza

When '12 Years a Slave' got that much attention, everyone started to copy that. That story has to be told, but there are a…

— Louis Gossett, Jr

“While I was fighting, I heard other people speaking in the name of freedom, and the more they defended this unique right, the more…

— Paulo Coelho

From the king To the beggar, by gradation, all are servants; And you must grant, the slavery is less To study to please one,…

— Philip Massinger

“A slave that acknowledges its enslavement is halfway to its liberation.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The story [in 12 Years a Slave] serves as a metaphor for the fear of having your family taken away, and for being abused…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

“By the middle of the eighteenth century the black slave had sunk, with hushed murmurs, to his place at the bottom of a new…

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“Imagine yourself in Harriet Tubman's shoes. Fighting to be freed from deplorable conditions. Placing one foot in front of the other, putting slavery behind…

— Susie Larson