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AND WHAT SHALL YOU SAY? by JOSEPH SEAMON COTTER JR.

First Line: BROTHER, COME! / AND LET US GO UNTO OUR GOD
Last Line: AND, BROTHER, WHAT SHALL YOU SAY?
Subject(s): AFRICAN AMERICANS; BROTHERHOOD; GOD; RELIGION; SOCIAL PROTEST; NEGROES; AMERICAN BLACKS; THEOLOGY;
Brother, come!
And let us go unto our God.
And when we stand before Him
I shall say --
"Lord, I do not hate,
I am hated.
I scourge no one,
I am scourged.
I covet no lands,
My lands are coveted.
I mock no peoples,
My people are mocked."
And, brother, what shall you say?




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