Activist
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Freedom of speech is being restricted Words are power and truth is depicted, In the stories we tell but they are the edited To suit what those who control want you to hear and read, And this political rooted censoring Means when you choose to voice anything, They can suspend you from work, they can…
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War is a transgression and an affliction of mankind, that creates our greatest suffering and that destroys every beautiful thing and robs the world of love and kindness, leaving behind only hate, frustration and brutality. Yet we do nothing to stop it, for we believe we are too meek, too few, too powerless, when in…
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Money is always being poured into arms They are cutting down rainforests to establish cattle farms, They are polluting more to create batteries for cars Lithium mining and acid lakes continuing without a charge, Yet still the petrol heads won’t give up on dirty fuels And all around the globe we have pharma companies and…
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Religious wars and rhetoric Same old control trick, Pitting one another Against each other, Religion is another branch of big brother, Breeding more resentment Breeding more division, Promoting more hate But nothing about love, No talk of forgiveness As it takes off you the pounds and bucks, Religious movements are wealthy But their congregations are…
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If the rich globally stopped evading half of the taxes on the money they earn and contributed in the same way as the rest of us do then we would not have to pay as much tax as we do and there would be more for all those who really need it. Yet this simple…
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We train for war But not for peace, We train to kill But not to love, We teach hate But not how to care, We foster greed But not how to share.
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Can violent men reform When their lives of violence, Are a daily norm Can they really change their ways, When they’ve made fear Seem an acceptable way, If we give them a chance And they hurt somebody The very next day, How do we reconcile The pain that we have, To suffer because they Had…
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Climate denialists are trying to poison children’s minds Trying to tell them that in their hands the future is sublime, But children pay the ignorant people no never mind Because they are blinkered and far to blind, To embrace real science trying to protect mankind Unlike the science that wants to protect the corporation’s defined,…
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The way things are means we aren’t going to change society soon, so what is there left for us to do? other than change ourselves and own lives, the way that we think and to stop living a lie, that everything is fine, when we can see it’s not, so let’s create our own internal…
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You drop small change And a homeless person takes it, The rich person points out Just what the homeless person did, Said you should be outraged And makes you vindictive, Meanwhile you’ve not noticed How while you were distracted, The rich person picked your pockets Taking far more than you knew, But because they’re dressed…
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