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The Right To Speak
Don’t speak to me of freedom’s loss
Free speech that treasured jewel
Lives cut short the human cost
How governments misrule
Its not a crime to have your say
To speak about the truth
Your silence is to high price, to pay
Make sure you use that polling booth
Mandela spent many years on a devil's isle
And women died to gain the right to vote
Many soldiers fell in wars, defending your lifestyle
Don’t make freedom of speech your scapegoat
No ones ever died from listening , to the spoken word
But many defending the right to speak
to deny the right would be absurd
never punish those that dare to speak
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