We cannot have trust and justice if we deny the truth <br />If in the face of prejudice we do remain as mute <br />Where one race feels superior to another there never can be trust <br />Let us drink to equality and what is right and just <br />In our narrow society where rank is seen as good <br />And where the true meaning of equality by most not understood <br />We cannot have equality and a fair go for all <br />If not one prejudice free society of which one can recall <br />In the 21st century we have not learned from the past <br />For old prejudices and hatreds in our time seem to last <br />As long as there is an underclass and as long as there is poverty <br />We will never even take one step closer to equality <br />The past may be behind us but the past from us not gone <br />As discrimination, war and poverty are things that do live on.<br /><br />Francis Duggan<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/we-cannot-have-trust-and-justice/
