Neil Peart - Rush
- Lock and Key
Don't want to silence a desperate voice for the sake of security. No one wants to make a terrible choice on the price of being free. I don't want to face the killer instinct - face it in you or me. So we keep it under lock and key.
Directed by Ridley Scott
- Blade Runner
Replicants were used Off-world as slave labor, in the hazardous exploration and colonization of other planets. After a bloody mutiny by a Nexus 6 combat team in an Off-world colony, Replicants were declared illegal on earth - under penalty of death. Special squads - Blade Runner Units - had orders to shoot to kill, upon detection, any trespassing Replicant. This was not called execution. It was called retirement.
Frederick Douglass
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
I have often sung to drown my sorrow, but seldom to express my happiness. Crying for joy, and singing for joy, were alike uncommon to me while in the jaws of slavery. The singing of a man cast away upon a desolate island might be as appropriately considered as evidence of contentment and happiness, as the singing of a slave; the songs of the one and of the other are prompted by the same emotion.
Frederick Douglass
- Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
I have often been utterly astonished, since I came to the north, to find persons who could speak of the singing, among slaves, as evidence of their contentment and happiness. It is impossible to conceive of a greater mistake. Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.
