Lyrics
the civil rights era:
Martin Luther King Jr.
"The time is always ripe to do what is right". "Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a constant attitude". "Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'".
Rosa Parks
"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear".
Angela Davis
"Jails and prisons are designed to break human beings, to convert the population into specimens in a zoo".
Harry Belafonte
"Although slavery may have been abolished, the crippling poison of racism still persists, and the struggle still continues".
Muhammad Ali
"I have nothing to lose by standing up for my beliefs. So I'll go to jail, so what? We've been in jail for 400 years".
Sick
And tired
Of being
Sick and tired
Frederick Douglass
Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will
The great Ida B. Wells
The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them
Oh, yes, Malcolm X
You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom
Fannie Lou Hamer
I am sick and tired of being sick and tired
Sick
And tired
Of being
So sick
And tired
The Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King Junior
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere
Sick and tired
Of being sick
And tired
Sick and tired
Sick and tired
Justice everywhere
Justice
Justice
[Coda]
Sick and tired
sick and tired...
Sick and tired
sick and tired...
Justice Everywhere!
Sick and tired
sick and tired...
Sick and tired
sick and tired...
Justice Everywhere!
Sick and tired
sick and tired...
Sick and tired
sick and tired...
Justice Everywhere!
[Fade]