Fixing America In 500 Words Or
Less
Chapter 52
WITHIN YOU AND ME
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Some say he started a religion, some say he was a radical Jew
No doubt, he taught us all by example, what our conscience says we should do
Like we want to be treated ourselves is the way to treat our sister and brother
It's the key to human and civil rights, yeah, and the sum of all that matters
Look out among you, my mother, my sister, my brother
We must have love for each other if we want to be free
And if we want to save the planet we must help the people on it
A friend of sinners holds the keys to liberty
And change down here begins within you an' me
He went up against right-wing religion and tried to teach us what's really is true
Standin' up for peace and freedom, he warned us not to do what they do
Like we want to be treated ourselves is the way to treat our sister and brother
And those who teach otherwise are against their own children, father an'
mother
There's a wall in Arizona along the border in Nogales
Someone painted on it in Spanish, "walls turned sideways are bridges"
Look out among you, my mother, my sister, my brother
We must have love for each other if we want to be free
And if we want to save the planet we must help the people on it
A friend of sinners holds the keys to liberty
You know, change down here begins within you an' me
Yeah, we need help from above, 'cause God in heaven's got all the love
And change down here begins within you an' me *
* Based on the far beyond liberal "good news" of Jesus of Nazareth. Dedicated to Mohandas K.
Gandhi, whose personal example reflects the message of Jesus more than all of the
conservative Christian religious combined, to César Estrada Chávez and to Dolores
Huerta: “Let my people go.”
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