Masters and Servants

"Ninety-nine percent of the people in this country are kind, honest and good, however the bad one percent are the ones who are in power. Do you know why the good people of this country, the 99 percent, are not in control of the country, and why the bad one percent are? It is because so many are poor and illiterate and therefore do not know their rights. So, they do not know that they are the owners of their own state, and that it is the police who are their servants. Because they are unaware of this fact, the masters have become the servants, and the servants have become the masters."

-Sharif Mustafa Helal
BRCT/BIHR Regional Coordinator
Oct. 5, 2004