The Best Moses Quotes

Newton: I'm gonna die so they can get rich.
Moses: That's why we left too.

Newton: Mr. Moses, what are you?
Moses: A free man, captain.
Newton: Sure is.

Moses: [looking at his dog bite] Let me see that there.
Newton: Aw, it ain't that bad.
Moses: You must be pretty brave then. Y'all must taste like we do, the way he latched onto you.

Moses: Deserted. How come?
Newton: It ain't my fight, you know? Don't own no slaves. Ain't gonna die so they can get rich selling cotton.
Moses: That's why we left, too.

Ward: What are you doin', nigger? That ain't for you. Put it back. Put it back, nigger.
Moses: How you ain't?
Ward,16405: What?
Moses: I said, how you ain't?
Ward: How I ain't what?
Newton: What he says, Ward, is how you ain't a nigger. I mean, they just pick cotton for 'em. You-You was willin' to get killed for 'em

Newton: [eulogizing] These boys... These young men... They was your friends, your cousins, your brothers and your kin. But to those soldiers who didn't know 'em, they was just niggers. They was just somebody else's nigger. So somehow, some way or sometime, everybody is just somebody else's nigger. Mr. Moses, are you a nigger?
Moses: No, I'm not.
Newton: What are you?
Moses: A free man, captain.
Newton: Well, why's that?
Moses: 'Cause you cannot own a child of God.
Newton: No, you cannot, can you? You can own a horse, you can own a mule or cow or an ox, but you... You cannot own a child of God.

Newton: Lyin' like that? Don't it make you dizzy?
Moses: Oh, no. It don't bother me now.
Newton: I guess you get used to anything.
Moses: No, you can't.