Slavery...

Everywhere I saw slavery being carried in processions toward the alters and being called "GOD".

They poured libations of wine and perfume at its feet and called it "ANGEL".

They burned incense before its image and called it "PROPHET".

They fell down prostrate before it and call it "THE HOLY LAW".

They fought and killed for it and called it "PATRIOTISM".

They submitted to its will and called it "THE SHADOW OF GOD ON EARTH"

They burned their houses and razed their buildings at its will and called it "FRATERNITY and EQUALITY".

They strove then and made every effort for it, calling it "WEALTH and TRADE". 

Indeed, it has many names and but one reality, many manifestations of a single substance. it is a single disease, eternal without beginning, without end,appearing with many contradictory symptoms and differing sores, inherited from the fathers by the sons as they inherit the breath of life. The ages receive its seeds in the soil of the ages, just as the seasons reap what the seasons have sown.

Hunchbacked slavery, slavery that makes a people subject to the laws of other people.

Mangy slavery, slavery by which the sons of kings are crowned kings.

Dark slavery, slavery by which the innocent children of criminals are branded with shame.

Slavery to slavery itself, the power by which it continues.