Famous lines from 12 Years a Slave (2014)

The lines

18 lines. Famous lines like these turn up in the daily game.

• Yah not any..Birch

• I say we fight.Robert

• Resolve this. Produce your papers.Birch

• Well well well, my boy, how yah feel now?Birch

• Master Ford, you must know; I am not a slave.Solomon Northup

• Who in your estimation is that sympathetic ear?Clemens

• You know that? You know for certain who they were?Clemens

• They were not kidnappers. They were artists. Fellow performers.Solomon Northup

• All I know, we get where we traveling we'll wish we'd died trying.Robert

• Survival is not about certain death, it is about keeping your head down.Clemens

• We need a sympathetic ear. If we have an opportunity to explain our situation..Solomon Northup

• The two men I journeyed with. I'm certain they're making inquires at this very moment.Solomon Northup

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

• The crew is fairly small. If it were well planned, I believe they could be strong armed.Solomon Northup

• I would be just as certain they are counting the money paid for delivering you to this place.Clemens

• Three can't stand against a whole crew. The rest here are niggers, born and bred slaves. Niggers ain't got the stomach for a fight, not a damn one.Clemens

• 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.Birch

• Days ago I was with my family, in my home. Now you tell me all is lost. "Tell no one who I really am" if I want to survive. I don't want to survive, I want to live.Solomon Northup