I Love Khalil Gibran's Work
"From distant times down to our own days the privileged of society have ever allied themselves with the clergy and leaders of religion against the body of society. It will not be cured saved by the banishment of ignorance from the world when the mind of every man shall become a sovereign and the heart of every woman a priestess.
The son of the privileged builds his mansion with the bodies of the weak and the underprivileged, and the priest sets up his sanctuary on the graves of the faithful and the humble. The ruler lays hold of the arms of the wretched peasant, and the priest stretches forth his hand to his pocket. The governor looks at these children of the fields with a frown, and the priest moves among them smiling. Between the tiger's frown and the wolf's smile the flock perishes. The governor embodies law, and the priest religion, and betwixt the twain bodies are destroyed and spirits die."
The son of the privileged builds his mansion with the bodies of the weak and the underprivileged, and the priest sets up his sanctuary on the graves of the faithful and the humble. The ruler lays hold of the arms of the wretched peasant, and the priest stretches forth his hand to his pocket. The governor looks at these children of the fields with a frown, and the priest moves among them smiling. Between the tiger's frown and the wolf's smile the flock perishes. The governor embodies law, and the priest religion, and betwixt the twain bodies are destroyed and spirits die."
