Freedom is making up your own mind
Beware of him who tries to poison your mind against another under the pretence of helping you. The chances are a thousand to one he is trying to help himself.
South African poet and painter Breyten Breytenbach tells of a black man named Freedom who was the property of a one-legged slave owner in the days before the abolition of slavery. Whenever the owner bought a new pair of shoes, he gave the left one, which he couldn’t use, to Freedom. Eventually, wearing two left shoes deformed Freedom’s right foot, and he was permanently crippled by the “generosity” of his Read More →