<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567641" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On Torture We Should Not Keep Our Silence</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In many so called Democratic Countries Human Rights laws are being transgressed<br>And people due to their difference from others are imprisoned and oppressed<br>And suffer the worst forms of torture should we in silence stand idly by<br>For a wrong against any individual is a wrong against you and I.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A loss of Human rights to any individual is a loss of rights to all<br>The huge plague of locusts destroyed the grain crops though their numbers once were small<br>And like the locusts those who go along with torture their numbers multiply<br>But on such a matter for me to keep my silence would be to live a lie.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">On torture we should not keep our silence 'tis time we made a stand<br>I've got a lethal weapon here the pen is in my hand<br>I may not command much power but to my own self I must be true<br>For if you do not speak out against torture you become a torturer too.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In many so called Democratic Countries Governments to torture turn a blind eye<br>And people due to torture have even been known to die<br>And those who keep their silence on such a matter are saying<br>torture is okay<br>Though a loss of rights to one individual is a loss of rights to all or to me 'twould seem that way.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567641" data-title="On Torture We Should Not Keep Our Silence de Francis Duggan" data-description="In many so called Democratic Countries Human Rights laws are being transgressed And people due to their difference from others are imprisoned and oppressed And suffer the worst forms of torture should we in silence stand idly by For a wrong agains..."></div> </div> </div>

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