The supporters you're referring to were called patrons. Patrons were usually wealthy merchants or people who have made their fortune in other ways and wanted to either have a picture of themselves and their family, or generally had a desire to support painting, some even decided to order paintings for the church in order to get in good standing with the church officials.
Unclear question, however I inferred you referring to the country–Democratic Republic of Congo.
Explanation:
Sadly, the Democratic Republic of Congo has been faced with severe economic challenges for decades. This African Nations has an economy that thrives on agriculture. However, due to decades of civil unrest in the country it has been faced poor economic progress.
For example, commenting on the economic challenges of the country, the World Bank states that majority of the country's population (64%) lives on less than $1.90 a day.
It is believed that the person who said these words was, the philosopher of the Enlightenment, Voltaire. But these words were spoken by his biographer, the English writer Evelyn Beatrice Hall under the pseudonym Stephen G. Tallentyre, the author would have created this sentence to summarize the philosopher's thought in the biography The Friends of Voltaire, 1906
.The famous phrase symbolizes the right of free expression
