Every Time You Stand Up

Oh No, Oh No... Don't Lift Me, Don't Lift Me.

I Run Because I Am Convinced That This Country Is On A Perilous Course And I Have Such Strong Feelings About What Must Be Done.

All Great Questions Must Be Raised By Great Voices, And The Greatest Voice Is The Voice Of The People - Speaking Out - In Prose, Or Painting Or Poetry Or Music; Speaking Out - In Homes And Halls, Streets And Farms, Courts And Cafes - Let That Voice Speak And The Stillness You Hear Will Be The Gratitude Of Mankind.

Every Time We Turn Our Heads The Other Way When We See The Law Flouted, When We Tolerate What We Know To Be Wrong, When We Close Our Eyes And Ears To The Corrupt Because We Are Too Busy Or Too Frightened, When We Fail To Speak Up And Speak Out, We Strike A Blow Against Freedom And Decency And Justice.

Goethe Tells Us In His Greatest Poem That Faust Lost The Liberty Of His Soul When He Said To The Passing Moment, 'stay, Thou Art So Fair.