Land of Bondage, Land of the Free

Land of Bondage, Land of the Free EssayThe tao does not come here tonight to be judged, barely to judge, Hear then his accusations and his sentiments. I indict the Spanish encomendero for inventing taxes impossible to bear. I indict the shylock for saddling me with debts impossible to net income. I indict the irresponsible radical leaders who undermine with insidious eloquence the impudence of my kind in the government.You institutionalize me of not supporting my family. Free me from bondage and I shall prove you false. You accuse me of ignorance. hardly I am ignorant because my master finds it profitable to keep me ignorant. Free me from bondage and I shall prove you false. You accuse me of indolence. But I am indolent, not because I have no depart, but because I have no hope. Why should I labor if all the fruits of my labor go to pay an unpayable debt? Free me from bondage and I shall prove you false.Give me arena. Land to own, land unbeholden to any tyrant, land that will be free. Give me land for I am starving. Give me land that my children may not die. Sell it to me. Sell it to me at fair price as one free man sells to another(prenominal) and not as a usurer sells to a slave. I am poor, but I will pay for it. I will work, work, until I fall from weariness for my privilege, my inalienable right to be free.But if you will not grant me this last request, this ultimate demand, then build a wall roughly your house. Build it high, build it strong. Place a sentry on every parapet. For I, who have been silent thither three hundred years, will come in the night when you are feasting with my cry and my bola tie at your door And may God have mercy on your soul