25 Best Quotes from 12 Years a Slave to Make You Ponder

What color is your soul?

Life is so precious.

Slavery is a great injustice.

When you fear another person as much as you would for a dangerous animal, there is something wrong.

You cannot let sorrow consume you.

Temptation is hard to resist.

How can one endure such suffering?

To just be able to rest would be all the pleasures in the world.

Everyone will pay their dues for the sins they commit.

What goes around comes around.

It's disturbing to learn how inhumanly people were treated. 

What's the root of slavery?

Whether there were more caring than others, all individuals who owned a slave were inhuman.

What a contradiction.

A free man is a happier man.

A strange way to dance.

In some situations, death seems to be a more pleasing alternative.

Never judge another, you have no idea what they have lived through.

Everyone should be treated the same regardless of the color of their skin.

At least there is one saving grace.

No one should be treated with such cruelty.

Sometimes all you can do is to try to survive.

The way you look can say enough for what you have endured.

Sometimes the only way to survive is to remain unnoticed.

These quotes from 12 Years a Slave will make you want to make this a part of your next movie night!