The Face of Oppression
Oppression
Injustice
Silence
These are the words that describe modern day slavery:
human trafficking.
We think this is a faceless crime:
it isn’t.
Oppression has a face.
Injustice has a face.
The 10- year- old girl sold into child slave labor,
the teenager killed trying to escape from his captors,
the teen girl and young woman forced into prostitution.
Voiceless.
Invisible.
These children of God have a face.
Let’s give them a voice.
Be a voice for the voiceless.
They are all around us.
Pay attention.
Oppression has a face.
Patti Burris 
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