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Bernie Sanders
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We Shall Overcome
we shall overcomeIn many ways the world in which we live in today is an extremely depressing place it's hard to deny that and it's wrong to deny that war, starvation, the degradation of our environment people being manipulated and mulled into a stupor by the mass media consumerism, a futile striving for happiness earning more and more money to buy more and more things and on and on it goes but if we become depressed overwhelmed by the obstacles in front of us in creating a world of sanity of joy of compassion then we become part of the problem another obstacle that others who are prepared to be socially and politically active have to overcome during the 1960's when Martin Luther king Jr and the people of the civil rights movement stood up to the bigots and the power structure Find more lyrics at ※ Mojim.com denying Americans their basic human rights they sang a song on marches, on picket lines, and in the jailhouses a song which became a symbol of hope a belief that one day we shall overcome that on this earth there will be peace there will be justice there will be human brotherhood
we shall overcome we shall overcome we shall overcome someday oh we
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