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God3 quotes
I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. — God · 1405 BCAnd remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out from there by a mighty hand and by an outstretched arm. — God · 1405 BCLet my people go. — God · 1405 BCAleksandr Solzhenitsyn1 quote
You only have power over people as long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything he's no longer in your power-he's free again. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn · 1968Desmond Tutu1 quote
You will never be free until we are free. — Desmond Tutu · 1999Frederick Douglass1 quote
Every tone was a testimony against slavery, and a prayer to God for deliverance from chains. — Frederick Douglass · 1845Harry Hay1 quote
We have to be people who set each other free. — Harry Hay · 1998James Baldwin1 quote
Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be. — James Baldwin · 1961Jean-Jacques Rousseau1 quote
Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau · 1762Lord Byron1 quote
Who would be free themselves must strike the blow? — Lord Byron · 1818Moses1 quote
Thus sayeth the Lord God of Israel: "Let my people go!" — Moses · 1956Simone de Beauvoir1 quote
I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom. — Simone de Beauvoir · 1945Steve Biko1 quote
The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. — Steve Biko · 1971Tyler Durden1 quote
It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything. — Tyler Durden · 1999