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KoKo

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Fri Jun 14, 2013, 06:30 PM Jun 2013

"Trails of troubles, Roads of battles, Paths of victory, We shall walk." ODETTA [View all]

WE WILL NOT GIVE UP!

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Bob Dylan's classic song sung by his hero, Odetta!

"Trails of troubles,
Roads of battles,
Paths of victory,
We shall walk."

There is no trouble we can't face, no hardship we can't endure, no evil we can't defeat. We always have.

This is about people who transcended by their own force of will. The Anti-Slavery Movement, with John Brown, Harriett Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and Abraham Lincoln; the Chinese imigrants who built America's transcontinetnal Railroad; the waves of world citizens who came through Ellis Island for a new life; the liberation of India by Mohandas Gandhi; the Japanese Americans who were interned in prison camps during WWII; the victims of the wretched Nazi regime; the Civil Rights Movement with Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King & Malcom X, and their daughters Attallah and Yolanda; Cesar Chavez and the migrant farm workers and immigation struggles; the heavyweight champion of them all, Muhammad Ali; the killing of the Native Americans and rebirth as the 70's American Indian Movement; women's equality with Alice Paul, the Equal Rights Amendment, Secretary of State Clinton, and First Lady Michelle Obama; the fall of Communism in Russia; the struggle for democracy in China; the fall of the Berlin Wall; the end of Apartheid from Stephen Biko to Nelson Mandela; equal rights for sexual preference with Harvey Milk; and the new President of the United States, Barack Obama.
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