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Ar Fol Lo La Ro performed by Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem from the album At Carnegie Hall about the power of music to join people together:
"And whether your blood be high land or low, And whether your skin be black or white as the snow, Of reason there's none, and why should there be As long as there's fire in the blood and a light in the eye"
"This is not a black and white world To be alive I say that the colors must swirl And I believe That maybe today We will all get to appreciate The beauty of gray"
"The time has come to say fair's fair to pay the rent to pay our share"
"It's not easy bein' green It seems you blend in with so many other ordinary things And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're not standing out Like flashy sparkles on the water or stars in the sky"
"When I try to sleep at night I can only dream in red The outside world is black and white With only one colour dead Oh Biko, Biko, because Biko"
"The church it was crowded but no one could see That Cynthia Wesley's dark number was three Her prayers and her feelings would shame you and me And the choir kept singing of freedom"
" I'm white inside. But that don't help my case. 'Cause I can't hide What is on my face.."
"The world is black, the world is white. It turns by day, and then by night. The child is black, the child is white. The whole world looks upon the sight, a beautiful sight."
"England's not the mythical land of Madame George and roses It's the home of police who kill black boys on mopeds And I love my baby and that's why I'm leaving I don't want him to be aware that there's any such thing as grieving."
"And I told about equality and it's true Either you're wrong or you're right But, if you're thinkin' about my baby It don't matter if you're black or white"
"Buffalo Soldier, Dreadlock Rasta There was a Buffalo Soldier In the heart of America Stolen from Africa, brought to America Fighting on arrival, fighting for survival"
"We got these energy companies Who want to take the land And we got churches by the dozens Trying to guide our hands And turn our mother earth Over to pollution war and greed"
"A piece of canvas is only the beginning It takes on character with every loving stroke This thing of beauty is the passion of an artist's heart By God's design, we are a skin kaleidoscope"
"You think the only people who are people Are the people who look and think like you But if you walk the footsteps of a stranger You'll learn things you never knew you never knew"
"Hands and feet are all alike But gold between divide us Hands and feet are all alike But fear between divide us Hands and feet are all alike Hear what I say Hear what I say Oh, so be it How can I turn away Brother/Sister go dancing through my head Human as to human The future is no place To place your better days"
"He came dancing across the water With his galleons and guns Looking for the new world In that palace in the sun"
"Free at last, we should be free at last Not prisoners of the past, divided by races. Kind of strange, though we're all 'bout the same Somehow these lines remain, We stay in our places. And what does the color of the skin Have to do with the person within"
Don't Drink the Water performed by Dave Matthews Band from the album Before these Crowded Streets (Purchase from Amazon.com) about European colonization of Native American lands:
"Away away You have been banished Your land is gone And given me And here I will spread my wings Yes I will call this home What's this you say You feel a right to remain Then stay and I will bury you What's that you say Your father's spirit still lives in this place I will silence you"
"What do you know when you know me? Don't file me under categories, you're deceived You don't know me I'm not only a surface, a country"
"He said, Do you remember the day we met, Michael I heard you were coming and I called many times I didnt want someone like you to move in here I wasnt used to your kind."
"Drowning in a sea of tears Hatred trying to hide your fears Living only for yourself Hating everybody else Cause they don't look like you"
"Ebony and ivory Live together in perfect harmony Side by side on my piano keyboard Oh lord, why don't we?"
"Until the killing of Black men, Black mothers sons Is as important as the killing of white men, white mothers sons Struggling myself dont mean a whole lot, Ive come to realize That teaching others to stand and fight is the only way my struggle survives"
"The ink is Black The page is White Together we learn how to read and write Some people are Black There's people that's White Lets stop Racism and let's unite"
"What we need is awareness, we can't get careless You say what is this? My beloved lets get down to business Mental self defensive fitness (Yo) bum rush the show You gotta go for what you know Make everybody see, in order to fight the powers that be"
"Oh now attidue, why even bother I can't change your mind You can't change my color Free your mind and the rest will follow"
"Sometimes she heard the music Wild and strange in the summer night They're dirty people warned her mother Never go near their campfire light. Stay away from the camp of the blackfellas Little white girls have disappeared They drink and dance when the moon is red Better never let 'em see your golden hair."
"If you're really that down, then act what you say KRS and Chuck need support today I see you posing with the Dr. King hanging on your wall Only difference is Chuck might give you that call to march on Friday Yeah, it's kinda frightening Let me move so I don't get hit by the bolt of lightning Striking you down because you're frontin'"
"My mom said not to bring her around Cause she's black My family will put her down I'll break the white-trash ties that bind Trade a love so pure for a hate so blind"
"Cause I ain't moving from my face, from my race, from my history I ain't movin' from my love my peaceful dove, it means too much to me Loving self can be so hard Honesty can be be demanding Learn to love yourself it's a great, great feeling"
"We are one, But we are many, And from all the lands on earth we come. We'll share a dream, And sing with one voice, I am, you are, we are Australian"
"I've been seeing Lisa now for a little over a year She says she's never been so happy but Lisa lives in fear That one day daddy's gonna find out she's in love With a nigger from the streets"
"They took the whole Cherokee nation, put us on this reservation Took away our ways of life, the tomahawk and bow and knife Took away our native toungue, and taught their English to our young"
"My heart belongs in an Indian world A place that I can call my home I've been livin' in a white man's world Taught nothing of my own"
"And I'm thinking this man wears a white hood In the night when his children should sleep But, they slip to their window and they see him And they think that white hood's all they need"
"Why so cut and dry A simple concept missed Give tolerance a try This confusion still exists"
"Recollect when I was just fourteen Freedom use to be my biggest dream I'm older now, lot wiser too If I was free what would I do"
"Tha sun ablaze as Maria's foot Touches tha surface of sand On northern land As human contraband Some rico from Jalisco Passed her name to tha boss She stuffed ten to a truckbed She clutches her cross"
"Mr. Cab Driver wont you stop to let me in. Mr. Cab Driver dont like my kind of skin. Mr. Cab Driver dont like the way I look. He dont like dreads he thinks were all crooks."
"I never knew that my skin was too Black I never knew that my nose was too flat I never knew that my clothes didnt fit And I never knew there were things that I missed And the beauty of everything Was in her eyes."
"The goal is to be unified, Take my hand be my brother... Society blind by color, Why hold down one to raise another... One, Oh, one the only way is one"
"I'm proud to be Black y'all And that's a fact y'all And if you try to take what's mine I'll take it back y'all It's like that"
"Can you feel it Tension in the air Racism, violence everywhere Davis, Howard Beach Bumpers and Brawley It appalls me Now is there really racial justice It's time that we discussed this I'm disgusted and I don't trust this"
"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery None but ourselves can free our minds Have no fear for atomic energy Cause none of them can stop the time"
"Sacrifice your freedom, Sacrifice your prayer Take away your language, Cut off all your hair Sacrifice the loved ones, Who always stood by me Stranded in the wasteland, Set my spirit free "
Society's Child performed by Janis Ian from the album Society's Child: The Verve Recordings (Purchase from Amazon.com) about racial oppression and the struggles of an interracial couple:
"My mother went to answer, you know, And you looked so fine. Now I can understand your tears and your shame. She called you "boy" instead of your name."
"Alas, said an Indian, I once had a home, In a fair forest glade, Where the wild deer did roam, Where the sacalait feast, On a festival day, But the steals of a White Man, Have took them away."
"Southern trees bear a strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, Black bodies swingin' in the southern breeze, Strange fruit hangin' from the poplar trees."
"Why are the rainbows stolen from the sky and locked up in boxes: yellow, red, black and white? Like birds in their cages, beating their wings on the bars..."
"They said I should Learn to speak a little bit of English Maybe practise birth control Keep away from controversial politics So to save my Third World soul You should speak a little bit of English Don't be scared of a suit and tie Learn to walk in the dreams of the foreigner I am a Third World child"
"Listen....I ain't black but there's lots of times I wish I could say I ain't white"
"Until the philosophy which holds one race superior, and another inferior, is finally and permanently discredited and abandoned, everywhere is war."
"If this is the same avenue my ancestors fought 2 liberate How come I can't buy a piece of it even if my credit's straight? If all the water's dirty and I wanna labor by my dammy The river that I drink from will it be the same as your mammy? "
"What Color is God's skin? What color is God's skin? I said, "It's black, brown, it's yellow, it's red It is white. Everyone's the same in the good Lord's sight."
"The color the color The color of your skin don't matter to me As long as as long as As long as we can live in harmony"
"I stood in line Down at the county hall I heard the man say We're going to build some new apartments for y'all And everybody wants to know why I sing the blues I've been around a long time I've really paid my dues"
"This is where the party ends I can't stand here listening to you And your racist friend I know politics bore you but I feel like a hypocrite talking to you You and your racist friend"
"Terceiro mundo se for Piada no exterior Mas o Brasil vai ficar rico Vamos faturar um milhão Quando vendermos todas as almas Dos nossos índios em um leilão Que país é este"
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