Your clubs and fists
Your horses and mace
Cannot quell or diminish
Voices united as one
To drown out despots
And desperate hypocrites
Who would hold us down
With guile and inequity
We march and pray
We cry for justice
And will not be overcome
Because
Black
Lives
Matter
#BlackLivesMatter
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