Conditions Quote by Mikhail Bakunin

“If there be a human being who is freer than I, then I shall necessarily become his slave. If I am freer than any other, then he will become my slave. Therefore equality is an absolutely necessary condition of freedom.”

Mikhail Bakunin

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