We Must Stand Up And Speak The Truth (Soulful D'n'B Remix) Lyrics

We are being tested and so we cannot add by dividing

Ultimately we are all we got we are all that we have we are in this together

Some people are disappointed because they are fearful that this nation of progress will be rolled back

But if we sit down and reason together, realize that we rise and fall together

There's nothing that can stop a people determined to make progress

We must stand up and speak the truth

You do what you need to do to make it happen

You gotta agitate you gotta aggravate you gotta organize you gotta get involved you gotta lift your voice

And you fight for causes that are bigger than you

What really is very troubling to me in this political environment is the level of hate

My god I've never seen a more vile vicious environment

It is not ok in our nation to vilify anybody based on ethnicity or race or gender or religion or sexual orientation Because we are a nation of progress

And we cannot turn that progress back but what is necessary is

First seek to understand and then be understood to shake up a system and work collectively to change it

So either we work together as sisters and brothers or

PERISH TOGETHER AS FOOLS

We must stand up and speak the truth

You do what you need to do to make it happen

You gotta agitate you gotta aggravate you gotta organize you gotta get involved you gotta lift your voice

And you fight for causes that are bigger than you

I have yet to have anybody whether I'm in the city, the suburb the exurb or the rural areas most folks wanted the Same thing and it didn't matter if I was talking to a white person a black person Hispanic person a native American person a mixed race person a gay lesbian straight transgender lardydardy and everybody, it didn't Matter who I was talking to they wanted the same thing

See once you peel back the layers we will find that we have more in common with most people than not...that's truth

Social justice economic justice political justice

To the person that was the things that they wanted

Now they might have had a different idea about how to get there BUT WE ARE THE SAME

We must stand up and speak the truth

You do what you need to do to make it happen

You gotta agitate you gotta aggravate you gotta organize you gotta get involved you gotta lift your voice

And you fight for causes that are bigger than you

Together from different walks of life together sisters and brothers together in harmony

We can change the world

Be kind be uncomfortable tell the truth

We can change the world

We can change the world

Step Up

We can change the world

We must stand up and speak the truth

We can change the world

We must stand up and speak the truth