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“Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me.” Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

“Man is born free; and everywhere he is in chains.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract

“Even that has its reason; it is often better to be in chains than to be free.” Franz Kafka, The Trial

“She was so evidently the victim of the civilization which had produced her, that the links of her bracelet seemed like manacles chaining her to her fate.” Edith Wharton, House of Mirth

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