Sunday, January 17, 2021

"Poets, slavery still goes on!"

Poets helped to condemn black slavery.  Poets, slavery still goes on!  More than two thirds of humanity are slaves to hunger, sickness, forced labor, despair.  And another third is in slavery to selfishness and fear.

                                                                                              --Dom Helder Camara, The Desert is Fertile, tr. Dinah Livingstone

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