Tuesday, January 25, 2005

Get Up, Stand Up For Your Rights

We sick an’ tired of-a your ism-skism game -
Dyin’ ’n’ goin’ to heaven in-a jesus’ name, lord.
We know when we understand:
Almighty God is a living man.
You can fool some people sometimes,
But you can’t fool all the people all the time.
So now we see the light (what you gonna do? ),
We gonna stand up for our rights! (yeah, yeah, yeah!)

So you better:
Get up, stand up! (in the morning! git it up!)
Stand up for your rights! (stand up for our rights!)
Get up, stand up!
Don’t give up the fight! (don’t give it up, don’t give it up!)
Get up, stand up! (get up, stand up!)
Stand up for your rights! (get up, stand up!)
Get up, stand up! ( ... )
Don’t give up the fight! (get up, stand up!)
Get up, stand up! ( ... )
Stand up for your rights!Get up, stand up!
Don’t give up the fight!

-Bob Marley

Read this story and then this yesterday. These two stories, along with the checkpoint shooting that I wrote about on Wednesday, got me to go here and sign the Not In Our Name statement.

(Blogger has been acting up since yesterday and I am surprised I got this finished and online today.)

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