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The evil that men should turn their brothers into beasts of burden, to slave and suffer… — Moses

Film · Epic (film) · Drama (film) · Epic · Drama

The evil that men should turn their brothers into beasts of burden, to slave and suffer in dumb anguish, to be stripped of spirit, and hope, and faith—only because they are of another race, another creed. If there is a god, he did not mean this to be so.

Moses
The Ten Commandments · 1956
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Slavery
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1956
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Moses
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The Ten Commandments. Directed by Cecil B. DeMille. Cecil B. DeMille Productions, 1956.

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