WE WANT

We Want to Live with Freedom, Liberty!

We Want to Live with Equality and Rights!

We Want to Live with Justice and Dignity!

We Want to Die in Peace and with Pride!

These all we earn in our lives on this Earth!

But to us are denied deliberately by others

For it costs them a comfortable leisurely life

Which they had never worked for, earned!

Others love to have all easy and cosy lives!

For which they had not worked or earned!

But steal from us all by denying everything

That we had worked for and earned in life!

- a Dalit poet

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