We Must Speak (ft. Dr Martin Luther King Jr)

from We Must Speak (EP) by Fold

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Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. issues us a calling to speak out against injustice, to speak for the weak and the voiceless - for the victims of our nation. This message is crucial to all of us today even more than it was in 1967 and cannot be delivered with the same impact by any other human being. The music is a bed of beats drifting from Downtempo to Dancehall laced with nylon string guitars and squelchy synths.

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I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken.

A time comes when silence is betrayal. The truth of these words is beyond doubt, but the mission to which they call us is a most difficult one. Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak.

We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation, for those that call us enemy. For no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers.

We are deeply in need of a new way beyond the darkness that seems so close around us. We must be prepared to match actions with words by seeking out every creative method of protest possible.

Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest.

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from We Must Speak (EP), released October 31, 2011
Music written, arranged and produced by Seth Mowshowitz.

This composition contains elements from “Beyond Vietnam - A Time For Breaking Silence ” (Martin Luther King Jr.) Published by Martin Luther King Jr. Music administered by EMI April Music Inc. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

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Fold is a conscious music band from Leeds rooted in funk, jazz, psyche and hip hop.

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