Kidnapped Quotes

• I have seen wicked men and fools, a great many of both; and I believe they both get paid in the end; but the fools first.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Believe, Men, Wicked

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Kidnapped: Stevenson's Vol. 23”, p.80, VM eBooks

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• In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'

  Brian Eno

  Children, People, Would Be

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• I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Happy, Fathers Day, Dad

  "R.I.P. Rodney Dangerfield", www.indiewire.com. October 6, 2004.

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• It wasn't enough to be kidnapped, I had to be insulted too.

  Charlaine Harris

  Enough, Insulted

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Dead and Gone: A Sookie Stackhouse Novel”, p.162, Penguin

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• X is not my real name. But if you study history, you'll find why no Black man in the Western Hemisphere knows his real name. Some of his ancestors kidnapped our ancestors from Africa and took us into the Western Hemisphere and sold us there, and our names were stripped from us and so today we don't know who we really are. I am one of those who admit it, and so I just put X up there to keep from wearing his name.

  Malcolm X

  Real, Men, Names

  Malcolm X's speech at the Oxford Union debate (December 3, 1964) as quoted in Saladin Ambar "Malcolm X at Oxford Union: Racial Politics in a Global Era" (p. 36), 2013.

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• For me to sit here and give all kinds of excuses to make it right, I can't do. But what I want to ask everyone out there, everyone that has a child, everyone that has a brother, a sister: if your child or family member was abducted today, if a mad man came in, a terrorist came in, abducted your family member or your child and if I said to you I can bring your child home...does it matter how I bring them home?

  Sam Childers

  Family, Sister, Brother

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• Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.

  Andy Warhol

  Art, War, Slavery

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock - that rock landed on us.

  Malcolm X

  Rocks, Land, America

  Spike Lee, Ralph Wiley, Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary: the trials and tribulations of the making of Malcolm X”, Hyperion Books

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• There are so many shocking things. Is it more shocking that there are children sold into slavery in every city in the world and right under our noses or that there are villages in Nepal where there are no children left because they have all been kidnapped for sex trafficking, or that there are generations of slaves in some countries where indentured slavery passes from generation to generation and that kids grow into adults not knowing that another world - another life - exists?

  Gillian Anderson

  Country, Sex, Children

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Is it reasonable to assume that someone who has been locked in a closet for 57 days after being kidnapped and brutalized, raped, abused, then they say you're going to rob a bank?

  Patty Hearst

  Assuming, Closets, Reasonable

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• I'm not a thrill seeker. I'm not looking to get kidnapped. I'm not looking to get a shot at. I've been shot at. I didn't like it.

  Henry Rollins

  Thrill, Shots, Seekers

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• For me, my awakening came when I was kidnapped.

  Patty Hearst

  Awakening

  "The rebel without a cause". Interview with Sam Leith, www.theguardian.com. December 13, 2008.

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• Over 270 girls were kidnapped for going to school in Nigeria! They are still missing! I'M outraged and you should be too!! I'm supporting www.globalfundforwomen.org Join me and take a stand!!!!!!! #Bringbackourgirls #revolutionoflove

  Madonna Ciccone

  Girl, School, Missing

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• Now then, what do we know? One, that Professor Fassbinder and his daughter have been kidnapped. Two, that someone has kidnapped them. Three, that my hand is on fire.

  Peter Sellers

  Daughter, Hands, Two

  "Fictional character: Chief Inspector Clouseau". "The Pink Panther Strikes Again", www.imdb.com. 1976.

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• I love developing children as characters. Children rarely have important roles in literary fiction - they are usually defined as cute or precious, or they create a plot by being kidnapped or dying.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Cute, Children, Character

  "Barbara Kingsolver: 'Motherhood is so sentimentalised in our culture'". Interview with Gemma Kappala-Ramsamy, www.theguardian.com. May 11, 2013.

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• The saddest sight these days is the image of hundreds of thousands of children kidnapped and lured into being child soldiers from the age of eight.

  Roger Moore

  Children, Eight, Sight

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• He's looking for the president's kidnapped daughter; everybody he calls on to help him is busy, but lo and behold, you look across the room, and I'm waiting for that action.

  Derek Luke

  Mother, Daughter, Hype

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If I were to meet the slave-traders who kidnapped me and even those who tortured me, I would kneel and kiss their hands, for if that did not happen, I would not be a Christian and Religious today... The Lord has loved me so much: we must love everyone... we must be compassionate!

  Josephine Bakhita

  Love, God, Christian

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• An actress should never, ever, be asked to run beside a van in red disco boots for more than about half a block, and then only if her child is being kidnapped.

  Roger Ebert

  Running, Children, Block

  Roger Ebert (2011). “Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012”, p.12, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The only time the press doesn’t sensationalize information is when one of their own is kidnapped. Interesting how they show restraint then.

  Jim Norton

  Interesting, Information, Restraint

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• I've got it! I've got it! It'll make front-page headlines around the world. You can have me kidnapped, and then a couple of days before the fight I'll show up again

  Muhammad Ali

  Couple, Fighting, Boxing

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• Everybody says they're opposed to torture. But everyone would do it personally if they knew it could save the life of a kidnapped child who had only two hours of oxygen left before death. And it would be the right thing to do.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Children, Oxygen, Two

  "Does torture work?" by Martin Robbins, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2010.

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• My parents were overprotective because you could get kidnapped and bombs were exploding in the streets.

  Mia Maestro

  Pregnancy, Parent, Bombs

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• These mercenaries and hirelings kidnapped civilians in the Al-Faw Peninsula so that they might claim that they captured Iraqi soldiers.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Soldier

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• Let the world feel your compassion: Help save kidnapped Yazidi females!

  Widad Akrawi

  Compassion, Female, World

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