All Waken Finally to Being Human

All waken finally to being human

We shall all waken finally to being human

All waken finally to being human

We shall all waken finally to being human

I call on the dead

I call on the defeated

On the starved

The sold

The tortured

The executed

The robbed

Indian women bayonetted

Before their children at Sand Creek

Miners who have choked on the black lung

Strikers shot down in the Pullman Strike

And at Republic Steel

Women bled to death

Of abortions men made illegal

Every black killed by police

National guard, mobs and armies

Live in us

Give us your strength

Give us your counsel

Give us your rage

And your will

To come at last into the light

I fear the trial

I fear the struggle

It parches and withers me

I fear the violence into whose teeth we march

I long for the outcome

With every cheated cell

We shall all waken finally to being human

We shall all waken finally to being human

We shall all waken finally to being human

We shall all waken finally to being human

We shall all waken finally to being human

We shall all waken finally to being human