"Trails of troubles, Roads of battles, Paths of victory, We shall walk." ODETTA

[KoKo]

WE WILL NOT GIVE UP!

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Uploaded on Dec 4, 2008
Bob Dylan's classic song sung by his hero, Odetta!

"Trails of troubles,
Roads of battles,
Paths of victory,
We shall walk."

There is no trouble we can't face, no hardship we can't endure, no evil we can't defeat. We always have.

This is about people who transcended by their own force of will. The Anti-Slavery Movement, with John Brown, Harriett Tubman, Frederick Douglass, and Abraham Lincoln; the Chinese imigrants who built America's transcontinetnal Railroad; the waves of world citizens who came through Ellis Island for a new life; the liberation of India by Mohandas Gandhi; the Japanese Americans who were interned in prison camps during WWII; the victims of the wretched Nazi regime; the Civil Rights Movement with Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King & Malcom X, and their daughters Attallah and Yolanda; Cesar Chavez and the migrant farm workers and immigation struggles; the heavyweight champion of them all, Muhammad Ali; the killing of the Native Americans and rebirth as the 70's American Indian Movement; women's equality with Alice Paul, the Equal Rights Amendment, Secretary of State Clinton, and First Lady Michelle Obama; the fall of Communism in Russia; the struggle for democracy in China; the fall of the Berlin Wall; the end of Apartheid from Stephen Biko to Nelson Mandela; equal rights for sexual preference with Harvey Milk; and the new President of the United States, Barack Obama.

[xchrom]

1. du rec.

[KoKo]

3. Thank You, truly...

[xchrom]

5. ...

i do love me some odetta.

[Melinda]

2. Odetta was a great civil and human rights activist. She kept the history alive.

Her music keeps it still. Seems like just yesterday she passed. Happy to K&R, thanks KoKo.

[KoKo]

4. She had incredible voice...melding the Old..with New Beat for another Generation...

I love this old "from the soul" songs and sounds. It's to the beat of "THE PEOPLE."

So, thank you for understanding it. I wonder sometimes if anyone remembers...but, that there are those that do...is inspiring.

[KoKo]

6. I believe so MUCH that we need to keep HISTORY ALIVE...I fear it's Fading...

because our "Instant World" and Work Force Restrictions leave so little time for our MINDS TO WANDER.

I fear for our Future...but, there will ALWAYS be SEEKERS...even in the Dire Times. I was one and think you and others were...not matter what Generation or Time we Live In...There WILL BE ...THE SEEKERS.

It's important to carry on from Generation to Generation...whether it "Sticks to the Wall" like Spaghetti...or just shrivels and dies out for a time.. A LITTLE WATER...and REFRESHED!

My HOPES...OUR HOPES...who are HERE...these days. For all of us still here...after ALL THESE YEARS....