Blessed Are Those Who Struggle-The Last Poets

[ti:Blessed Are Those Who Struggle] [ar:The Last Poets] [al:Delights Of The Garden] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Blessed Are Those Who Struggle - The Last Poets [00:02.51]Blessed are those who struggle [00:03.93] [00:04.92]Oppression is worse than the grave [00:06.77] [00:07.57]Better to die for a noble cause [00:09.08] [00:09.81]Than to live and die a slave [00:11.83] [00:12.59]Blessed are those who struggle [00:13.79] [00:14.90]Oppression is worse than the grave [00:16.30] [00:17.36]Better to die for a noble cause [00:19.10] [00:19.84]Than to live and die a slave [00:21.45] [00:22.57]Blessed are those who courted death [00:24.13] [00:24.75]Who offered their lives to give [00:26.57] [00:27.41]Who dared to rebel rather than serve [00:29.37] [00:29.96]To die so that we might live [00:32.77]Blessed are those who struggle [00:33.99] [00:34.93]Oppression is worse than the grave [00:36.46] [00:37.56]Better to die for a noble cause [00:39.19] [00:39.82]Than to live and die a slave [00:41.35] [00:42.82]Blessed are those who took up arms [00:44.38] [00:45.04]And dared to face our foes [00:46.03] [00:47.43]Nat Turner Vesey Gariel Chinque [00:49.45] [00:50.18]To mention a few names we know [00:51.75] [00:52.85]Blessed are those who struggle [00:54.15] [00:55.14]Oppression is worse than the grave [00:56.91] [00:57.70]Better to die for a noble cause [00:59.47] [01:00.05]Than to live and die a slave [01:01.62] [01:02.81]Blessed are the memories of those [01:04.26]Who were there at the Harper's Ferry Raid [01:06.85] [01:07.65]Strong were their hearts noble their cause [01:09.37] [01:10.02]And great was the price they paid [01:11.37] [01:12.66]Blessed are those who struggle [01:13.99] [01:15.16]Oppression is worse than the grave [01:16.78] [01:17.70]Better to die for a noble cause [01:20.16]Than to live and die a slave [01:21.88] [01:22.89]Blessed are the voices of those who stood up [01:24.93]And cried out Let us be free [01:26.43] [01:27.75]Douglas and Garvey and Sojourner Truth [01:30.34]Dubois and Drew All [01:31.66] [01:32.97]Blessed are those who struggle [01:34.18] [01:35.35]Oppression is worse than the grave [01:36.70] [01:37.88]Better to die for a noble cause [01:39.62] [01:40.18]Than to live and die a slave [01:41.78] [01:42.96]Blessed are the giants that we have loved [01:45.00]And lost to the bullet's sting [01:46.21] [01:47.51]Like Malcolm and Medgar and the Panthers who fell [01:49.88] [01:50.47]And Martin Luther King [01:51.73] [01:52.85]Blessed are those who struggle [01:54.05] [01:55.24]Oppression is worse than the grave [01:56.68] [01:57.77]Better to die for a noble cause [02:00.12]Than to live and die a slave [02:01.74] [02:02.86]And blessed are the bodies of those [02:04.14]Who were hung from the limbs of the sycamore tree [02:06.45] [02:07.22]Who found end to their hope at the end of a rope [02:09.27]'Cause they dared to attempt to be free [02:11.48] [02:12.73]Blessed are those who struggle [02:14.11] [02:15.22]Oppression is worse than the grave [02:16.56] [02:17.73]Better to die for a noble cause [02:19.19] [02:19.73]Than to live and die a slave [02:21.21] [02:22.62]Up through the years we've continued this fight [02:24.25] [02:24.84]Our liberty to attain [02:26.42] [02:27.42]And though we have faced insurmountable odds [02:29.24] [02:29.99]Yet the will to resist remains [02:31.61] [02:32.52]Blessed are those who struggle [02:33.81] [02:34.98]Oppression is worse than the grave [02:36.44] [02:37.44]Better to die for a noble cause [02:39.18] [02:39.72]Than to live and die a slave [02:41.41] [02:42.47]Blessed are the spirits of those who have died [02:44.84]In the prisons all over this land [02:46.58] [02:47.43]Who committed one sin they stood up like men [02:49.87]And got iced for just being a man [02:51.17] [02:52.43]Blessed are those who struggle [02:53.68] [02:54.66]Oppression is worse than the grave [02:56.00] [02:57.22]Better to die for a noble cause [02:59.39]Than to live and die a slave [03:00.96] [03:02.23]Blessed all you who will join with us now [03:04.51]In this struggle of life and death [03:05.75] [03:06.65]So that freedom and peace will be more than a word [03:09.43]To the offspring that we have left [03:10.62] [03:12.02]Blessed are those who struggle [03:13.26] [03:14.45]Oppression is worse than the grave [03:15.71] [03:16.84]Better to die for a noble cause [03:18.46] [03:19.06]Than to live and die a slave [03:20.73] [03:21.92]Blessed are those who struggle [03:23.18] [03:24.21]Oppression is worse than the grave [03:25.65] [03:26.63]Better to die for a noble cause [03:28.97]Than to live and die a slave [03:30.60] [03:31.64]Blessed are those who struggle [03:32.97] [03:34.03]Oppression is worse than the grave [03:35.48] [03:36.51]Better to die for a noble cause [03:38.03] [03:38.55]Than to live and die a slave