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Exile1 quote
I have been a stranger in a strange land. — Moses · 1405 BC
Freedom1 quote
Thus sayeth the Lord God of Israel: "Let my people go!" — Moses · 1956
God1 quote
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. — Moses · 1405 BC
Grief1 quote
I do not know why the necessity of God Should feed on grief; but it seems so. — Christopher Fry · 1946
Liberation1 quote
Thus sayeth the Lord God of Israel: "Let my people go!" — Moses · 1956
Monotheism1 quote
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. — Moses · 1405 BC
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. — Moses · 1405 BC
I do not know why the necessity of God Should feed on grief; but it seems so. — Christopher Fry · 1946
Slavery1 quote
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 · 1956
But I am slow of speech, and of a slow tongue. — Moses · 1405 BC