Posted by Cass on October 25, 2000, at 15:18:09
In reply to Twisting mind, posted by kellyR. on October 25, 2000, at 12:48:41
> Living on your knees conformity, or Dying on your feet for honesty.
These seem like really profound words to me. I may interpret them different than you meant them, but a lot of good poetry is like that. Conformity is a degraded level of life in which you have lost all your spiritual/psychological vitality and integrity. But standing tall with integrity and truth (about corruption, social injustice or family abuse) is such a taboo that society may kill you for talking about it. They killed Jesus.
Those are very memorable and meaningful lines.
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