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

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Topic

Slavery

Speaker

Moses

Actor

Charlton Heston

Source

The Ten Commandments

Medium

Film

Genre

Epic (film) Drama (film) Epic Drama

Language

English

Time

1956 1950s 20th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

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

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