Pesach without children is like a cantor without a song, like an actor without any lines, or a storyteller without an audience. – Joe Bobker, And You Thought There Were Only Four: 400 Questions to Make Your Sed

Each Jew must either give or take tzedakah [charity] for Passover. – Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916), A Pesachdike Expropriacie, 1908

…proclaim liberty through all the land and unto all the inhabitants thereof… – Bible, Leviticus 25:10

Because I was born a slave, I love liberty more than you. – Ludwig Börne (1786–1837)