no-longer-a-slumdog

Chapter FOUR
Winds of Change
“Give me liberty, or give me death!” is the famous proclamation
by the American patriot Patrick Henry. This is the heart’s
cry of every human being. And who among the free would desire
that others should suffer oppression, abuse or hurt
We ache inside when we hear about the awful suffering of
starving children at refugee camps and in disaster zones. It troubles
us when we read about Adolf Hitler’s concentration camps.
We can’t forget the images of thousands of helpless people—
mothers, fathers, old and young—all crammed together behind
electric fences. Their bodies are skin and bones, their eyes sunken
with despair. Worse than seeing the pictures is knowing that
many of these victims were forced into gas chambers. It makes us
both angry and terribly sad.
In his book Roots, Alex Haley describes the plight of African
people who were packed into slave ships, sent to America and
sold like animals in the market. This was despicable. We ask ourselves,
“How could human beings do such things to their fellow
man”
Look at the French Revolution and how the people got fed
up with tyranny. In 1789, they set about to stop it. And the oppression
that occurred in Romania is a more recent example of a
population that suffered tremendous abuse until they wouldn’t