Freedom defined by a cabinet,
By the state or within your own mind
A cerebrum clad in shackles
Hide and seek with itself, seek to find
Not a notion for promotion
Not a slogan for banners and signs
An abstraction lacking action
Adjustments based upon place and time
Don't go near, it's a mind trap
You'll never make it out alive
Don't look under that striped hat
And don't be surprised what you find
Piece together how you got here
Cast your vote so you can be cast out
You don't have it but hand it over
What you gained is not worth what you gave out
Not a notion for promotion
Not a tool to raise cash or gain clout
But we're stranded on an ocean
Where there's none of what we can't live without
*Fred Hampton voiceover*
"We've got to defend ourselves, we intend to defend ourselves.
We did so in the past, and we're gonna do it today and the day
after that and the day after that.
Because only through this proper example of self defense, and the proper example of retaliation, and by letting these people know:
That we move for some basic laws. That anything that goes down on oppressed people, on the part of the oppressor, it should be reciprocal. And in plain, proletarian workers language: It takes two to tango. As soon as these motherfuckers go, we go."
and through
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