Quotes About Captivity

What we are oftentimes reminding people of is the fact that the history of police in the U.S. was that they were slave patrols. They were quite literally created in order to capture enslaved Africans.

Attempts to defend amusement parks and circuses on the grounds that they 'educate' people about animals should not be taken seriously. Such enterprises are part of the commercial entertainment industry. The most important lesson they teach impressionable young minds is that it is acceptable to keep animals in captivity for human amusement.

They've all been held captive, of their own free will, of course, and yet when set free, they are lost.

Imaginary prisoners are still prisoners.

year later the former king would be paraded through the streets of Rome among captives

Thousands of those who had fought alongside the Macedonians were sold into slavery.

In 260 CE, the emperor Valerian was taken prisoner, along with much of his army, while campaigning against them.

To make an example of them, Alexander had them sent back to Macedonia in chains

Albuquerque practiced the intimidatory tactics that had made the Franks so feared along the coast of India. Passing vessels were captured and ransacked for provisions. The unfortunate crews had their hands, noses, and ears cut off and were put ashore to announce the terror and majesty of Portugal. The ships were then burned.

Despite the efforts of some Turkish historians to claim her as an ethnic Turk and a Muslim, the strong probability is that she was a Western slave, taken in a frontier raid or captured by pirates, possibly Serbian or Macedonian and most likely born a Christian – a possibility that casts a strange light on the paradoxes in Mehmet's nature.

When we define the Photograph as a motionless image, this does not mean only that the figures it represents do not move; it means that they do not (i)emerge(i), do not (i)leave(i): they are anesthetized and fastened down, like butterflies.

He is now judging himself, harshly, by his captors' rules.

Why do the chimookomanag want us?" she growled. "They take all that makes us Anishinaabeg. Everything about us. First our land, then our trees. Now husbands, our wives, our children, our souls. Why do they want to capture every bit?

A picture held us captive. And we could not get outside it, for it lay in our language and language seemed to repeat it to us inexorably.

El jilguero canta en la jaulita colgada entre las cortinas de la ventana. ¿Siente quizá la primavera que se aproxima? Ay de mí, quizá la siente también el antiguo tronco de nogal con el que fue hecha mi silla, que ahora cruje con el canto del jilguero. Tal vez se hablan, con ese canto y con este crujido, el pájaro enjaulado y el nogal reducido a silla.

What the hell," he breathed "There are worse things than being a sex slave

A Casa Verde é um cárcere privado – disse um médico sem clínica.

It's too bad war makes people disappear like chess pieces, and that prisons turn prisoners into movie endings.

Never think that by releasing me you will be free. You would only condemn us to an ultimate hell on earth. You would only free something else to destroy us both.

Th soul! Ah, and did she not too have her savage and traitorous Tlaxcalans, her Cortés and her noches tristes, and, sitting within her innermost citadel in chains, drinking chocolate, her pale Moctezuma?

The more we dig this world, the more prisoners we become

I tried to keep very still, but my heart felt like crickets scratching to get out of the cage.

I am aware of being in a beautiful prison, from which I can only escape by writing.

It was as if in captivity, her brilliant plumage were losing its brilliance. She felt the metamorphosis. She knew she was moulting.