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Title: Credo
Author: Walter Everette Hawkins
Date: 1920
Language: en
Topics: poetry
Source: https://www.libertarian-labyrinth.org/anarchist-beginnings/walter-everette-hawkins-credo-1920/

Walter Everette Hawkins

Credo

I am an Iconoclast.

I break the limbs of idols

And smash the traditions of men.

I am an Anarchist.

I believe in war and destruction

Not in the killing of men,

But the killing of creed and custom.

I am an Agnostic.

I accept nothing without questioning.

It is my inherent right and duty

To ask the reason why.

To accept without a reason

Is to debase one’s humanity

And destroy the fundamental process

In the ascertainment of Truth.

I believe in Justice and Freedom.

To me Liberty is priestly and kingly;

Freedom is my Bride,

Liberty my Angel of Light,

Justice my God.

I oppose all laws of state or country,

All creeds of church and social orders,

All conventionalities of society and system

Which cross the path of the light of Freedom

Or obstruct the reign of Right.