We Died For That Right
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#6 We Died For That Right
We died for that right
To cast in our vote
To decide how to live
From a ballot like note
We died for that right
For a free spoken voice
And to elect as our leader
Who is best for our choice
We died for that right
So decisions are made
And our rights as a people
Won't wither or fade
We died for that right
To choose where we learn
And where we can live
From the profits we earn
We died for that right
To share in this land
And not live as slaves
Or policed by the man
Though we died for that right
We're still at a loss
Because our people don't vote
And we pay for that cost
I am America. I am the part you won't recognize. But get used to me.
Black, confident, cocky; my name, not yours; my religion, not yours; my
goals, my own; get used to me.
-- Muhammad Ali The Greatest (1975)
You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair
and no sugar cane for miles, but you can still be working on a plantation.--
Billie Holiday
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has
reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to
succeed. -- Booker T. Washington
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need is not a history of selected races or nations, but the history of the
world void of national bias, race hate, and religious prejudice.
-- Carter Woodson on founding Negro History Week, 1926
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