A character in Blood Diamond (2006)

Captain Poison quotes from Blood Diamond (2006)

David Harewood
Played by David Harewood Blood Diamond (2006) · 36 quotes

4th most-quoted character in Blood Diamond (2006): in 4 of its 36 quotes

A line from Captain Poison [to a captive, at a Sierra Leonean village chopping victims hands off]

Young man. You must understand. The government wants you to vote, okay? They gonna tell you say, "The future is in your hands." We now the future. So we take your hands! No more hands, no more voting! Chop him! [captive loses hands] Spread the word! The Revolutionary United Front is coming!

More lines from Captain Poison

1 quote
Captain Poison
[at an RUF labour mining camp where captive villagers are forced to mine for diamonds]

The Freetown government and their white masters have raped your land to feed their greed! RUF have freed you! No more slave and master here! RUF is fighting for the people! RUF is FIGHTING for Sierra Leone! [sees a worker find a diamond and hide it in his mouth; speaks but not directly referring to the worker] Any bastard think he would joke with me diamond, I go cut he throat! STOP! [approaches the worker] Give it to me! [worker takes the diamond out of his mouth and hands it to Poison, who then shoots him]

Scenes with Captain Poison

2 scenes
Captain Poison

Young man, young man, you must understand! The government wants you to vote, oke? They say 'The future is in your hands!'... We are the future, so we take your hands! No more hands, no more voting!

Captain Poison

You think I am a devil. But only because I have lived in hell. I want to get out.

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