Most people think Great God will come from the sky,Take away ev'rything, and make ev'rybody feel high.But if you know read more

Most people think Great God will come from the sky,Take away ev'rything, and make ev'rybody feel high.But if you know what life is worth, you would look for yours on earth,And now you see the light, you stand up for right, yah.

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Always do right; this will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight.

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who read more

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.

The public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.

It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for read more

It is in the American tradition to stand up for one's rights--even if the new way to stand up for one's rights is to sit down.