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“Being Christian is not just obeying orders but means being in Christ, thinking like him, acting like him, loving like him; it means letting him take possession of our life and change it, transform it, and free it from the darkness of evil and sin. ... Let us show the joy of being children of God, the freedom that living in Christ gives us which is true freedom, the freedom that saves us from the slavery of evil, of sin and of death!”

Thinking Giving Mean Children Shows Christian Joy Order Evil Christ Sin Acting Darkness Our Lives Slavery Possession Child Of God Obeying True Freedom Life And Change

Author:Pope Francis

“Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness and the darkness thicketed with shapes of terror and the hunters pursuing and the hounds pursuing and the night cold and the night long and the river to cross and the jack-muh-lanterns beckoning beckoning and blackness ahead”

Long Running Night Fall Darkness Cold Shapes Rivers Crosses Slavery Terror Hunters Blackness Hounds Lanterns Beckoning

Book:Collected Poems

Source: Collected Poems

“There are those who would keep us slipping back into the darkness of division, into the snake pit of racial hatred, of racial antagonism and of support for symbols of the struggle to keep African-Americans in bondage.”

War Darkness Support Struggle Racism Hatred Slavery Symbols African American Civil War Division Snakes Bondage Pits Slipping Antagonism

Author:Carol Moseley Braun

“Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.”

Years Soul Light Fall Sides Darkness Slavery Torture Nineteen Rise And Fall

Book:Les Mis??rables

Source: Les Mis??rables

“I believe that it would be almost impossible to find anywhere in America a black man who has lived further down in the mud of human society than I have; or a black man who has been any more ignorant than I have; or a black man who has suffered more anguish during his life than I have. But it is only after the deepest darkness that the greatest joy can come; it is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come.”

Men Believe Humans Has Beens Would Be America Joy I Believe Black Freedom Darkness Impossible Slavery Prison Appreciation Ignorant Anguish Mud Sweetest Human Society

Author:Malcolm X

“I expose slavery in this country, because to expose it is to kill it. Slavery is one of those monsters of darkness to whom the light of truth is death.”

Country Light Darkness Truth Is Sad Slavery Monsters Depressing

Book:Autobiographies

Source: Autobiographies

“Up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, madness is sanity.”

Light Pain Pleasure Darkness Madness Slavery Sanity

Author:Anton Szandor LaVey

“Slavery is the offspring of darkness.”

Darkness Slavery Offspring

Author:Simon Bolivar