A word of Torah: 
        The Sefat Emet (18^th century Hasidic master, commentary on parshat Shemot) taught there are three aspects of slavery and redemption in every exile. The first is a lack of awareness that anything is wrong. There is an assumption that this is the way life is. There are good days and bad days, but reality remains fundamentally the same. In the end, you can’t change anything if you don’t feel the chains of your “slavery.”
        In the Exodus story, the old pharaoh dies and a new pharaoh comes to power (Ex. 2:23). The Torah says that the Israelites cried out to God because of their slavery. The commentators ask why they waited until that moment to cry out?  One answer is that the Israelites hoped that their slavery would end with the reign of the pharaoh who had initiated it. When they saw that the new pharaoh was continuing the policy of his predecessor, they lost hope and cried out in despair. It was that moment that they realized the extent of their oppression. It also became the moment that they decided to try to change their fate.
        If the first aspect of all slavery and redemption is awareness of the reality, the second aspect is feeling defeated by that reality. Led by Moses, the Israelites go to the palace to demand their freedom. Pharaoh responds by increasing their workload. The people turn on Moses, complaining that his efforts have only made things worse. They know that they are oppressed, but they have lost faith that anything can change.
        The third aspect is when some begin to imagine the way things can be, even while knowing that change will not come easily. They understand that galut/exile is also the place of hitgalut/revelation---the revelation of a more just world. The exodus from Egypt reminds us we all have some inner space where we are free. 
        On Passover, we are to remember we were once slaves and we are to remember that we went free. It can happen again. We can make it happen again. Therefore, we are not only to remember the exodus during the holiday of Passover---we need to remember the exodus every single day. Judaism is all about freedom. We as individuals, as a people, and as a world all stand upon the shores of the sea of injustice, ready to pass over to the freedom waiting on the other side.