MLK's bravery and the bravery of the "little" people who marched with him, supported him - it astounds me. I lived in Mississippi from 1974 to 1980, and the racism, the hatred was so open. People say it's changed, and if it has, it's thanks to the those people who marched, who voted, who were not afraid. Even though there was much discourse in the Civil Rights Movement when MLK died, what would the US be like today, if he had lived and kept on making us face our lies. He changed the world.
i remember learning this song like in the 4th grade now i am in the 10th grade martin luther king was a great man and i believe we shall overcome someday!!!
People who hate and ridicule the occupiers as lazy scum who hypocritically wear and eat things made by corporations etc remind me of cops berating an old lady for a parking infringement while they ignore the violent armed bank robbery happening behind them. If they had a sense of perspective, they would realise that 400 individuals owning the same as the other 160 million people in the USA, is no longer tolerable !
@stylophobia great metaphore. There are a lot of things to critizice, but some enemies are bigger than others. Don't distinguish them is being an asshole. :)
@nomisaurr Who are you, nomisaurr? Are you Pete Seeger? If not, I wonder why you claim the right to speak in his name? I wonder if you like the song? If you consider yourself a peacemaker?
But, I bet you don't know that Pete Seeger performed at Occupy Wall Street in Oct. 2011 or that he played We Shall Overcome? Maybe you should find out what you're talking about before you say something the next time.
The problem with the modern day folk scene (post 1960) is the fact that they were constantly for the nigger. No matter what the black community’s shortcomings were. They still are today. Wimpy white people bleeding for an ethnic group who would ultimately end up hating them for the very same reasons that the folkies hated the established American view of the blacks for: Because of the color of their skin. Black people are the most racist people on the face of the planet..
We shall overcome IF we strive to overcome. Apathy is our first enemy and empathy is the cure. We must overcome for the only other option is to let those who oppress ruin the world in which we all live (whether through ecological disaster, nuclear and enldess war, continued social stratification & the continued divisions they feed us to keep us from recognizing the systemic problems that we all suffer together. The wars on culture, terror, & drugs mask the real war- the class war initiated by WS
It's saddens me to think that maybe we've seen all these men and women of peace come through history and change things just so we could have thie generation of apathy that I'm living in now. NOW! Our world faces some of the toughest questions and challenges it's ever had to face and everyone around me is fighting over blenders at wal-mart on black friday.
To all the homosexuals all over the world who are shunned, harassed, persecuted, ridiculed, bullied, oppressed, jailed, tortured, and/or murdered for being born who you are: Keep fighting for your human rights and dignity. You are fighting the good fight. One day bigotry and hate will fade into the shadows and the world will be much brighter.
To the heterosexuals reading this, remember that you also may belong to a group that was once oppressed and others that were unlike you fought for your human rights and dignity. Please return the favor. We all share this one Earth and no one is going anywhere. So let's all just get along and enjoy the ride together.
I heard this song in this movie called my name is Khan and the movie makes me proud to be a muslim or at least half muslim and the movie made me cry alot but its really happy too and i loved it
I am from INDIA, it's just amazing, so inspiring, i would like to compare the writer of this song to Sh. RABINDER NATH TAGORE, writer of INDIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM.
I had an opportunity of listeniing live to another folk singer named James Durst.. During his performance he kept on mentioning Pete Seeger n kept singing his versions of seeger songs... Now when I am listening to this song It keeps reminding me of that marvalous performance I witnessed in 2004 .....
@MrPierrejohansen YOU R THE TYPE OF PERSON WHO STEALS PENNIES FROM DEAD MEN EYES PETE IS A NATIONAL TREASURE WHO SPEAKS OF THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE BIG GOVERNMENT IS NOT GOOD FOR WORKING PEOPLE WEALTH IS BUILT ON WORKERS BACKS
This is the song of every body , I love it , I learned it when I was young in the middle school ROD AMAR in Algeria (north Africa) , My teacher was Mrs LAASSEL. I hope she's fine.
what happened to the minorities these days? like 40 years ago you were literally second class, inferior. Today, so many youth are trying so hard to return to that class..
"I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the Churches made of it." ~Pete Seeger
I do believe that 90% of the worlds population regardless of political beliefs,ethnicity or religious belief want to live in peace, unfortunately that 90% let the 10% dictate and instgate their greedy self serving agendas, but my friends i do believe we wil;l wake up, and for the sake of my and your children and grandchildren i hope and pray that i'm proven correct, Nameste, Shanti, Peace to all my brothers and sisters.
when seeing their fellow Arabs were being killed, raped, expelled? You could sell then and at least get some compensation, or be expelled without compensation later. Very similar dynamics to what the Third Reich in the early years did - and the very reason descendants of "sellers" get much of their property restituted or compensated even decades later now. Of course something to be dreamt of - not only does Israel not restitute, it will not let Palestinians enter the land of their ascendants.
@uatwmf I agree in part, but you forget one important thing: the Zionists/Jews/first Israelis have "cleansed" what was part of Palestine and was to become Israel of most of the ethnic minority, by murder, rape and other terror as well as more or less "consensual" sale of land (do not forget much of today's restitution of Aryanized property in Germany/Austria was "officially" sold, too, not expropriated; but how free were the Jews selling their property to Nazis, how free were the Palestinians
Even on the comments for this song, people are still bickering about who started what an who's the real problem. It takes two sides to have a war. No side is free of blame. I would've thought that the comments here would've been better. Peace is the message.
Love Pete Seeger....a hero for working people and a talented one at that. By the way, the whole "Jews as oppressers thing" and "Palestine" don't really work considering Jews led the civil rights struggle and the fact that Palestinians engage in acts of terrorism rather than civil disobedience. Also, they have been offered generous peace deals several times in the past and are better off than most Arabs, so shove it.
@DJSolomon94 "Generous peace deals" after illegal immigrants expropriated them of their Native land of many centuries with the help of the international community - are you kidding yourself? Which civil rights in your opinion do Jews lead in Palestine and Israel? The Jews who build Jew-only roads? The Jews who continue to ethnically expropriate Arab property and build Jewish housing in Jerusalem, inter alia (what's the difference to Aryanization again?)? The Jews who demand allegiance vows of
@DJSolomon94 the remaining Arab minority within Israel, vows on the Israeli flag (what's the difference to Jewish assimiliation in Germany before WWII, except that there the government did not try to officially make Jews swear allegiance to the Germans and extermination of deviant thinking/solidarity with one's own kind?)?
I can hardly believe a pro-Israeli man, Jew or non-Jew, can honestly love Pete Seeger and his work. At the very least they fail to understand him.
That song is sang right after the national anthem to start every meeting of the local Minutemen. Let us all pray that they do overcome the powerful and evil forces aligned against them --- liberals, open-borders freaks, the US Chamber of Commerce/greedy scumbag employers of illegal aliens, the ACLU, the SPLC, La Raza, the mainstream media, and most federal politicians of either party.
@american37 How very freaking ironic. Right-wing loons singing a leftist song that became a standard of the civil rights movement and bitching about liberals and the Southern Poverty Law Center. You people don't know left from right--or probably up from down. Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe we will overcome goofballs such as you.
By the way everybody, I'm not socialist or anything, but I felt the need to clarify: socalism is just government ownership and control over production. COMMUNISM is the government having power over everything, and having everybody be equal.
Actually, though socialism isn't strong in America, countries like France, Switzerland, and England are more socialist than us, so, really, socialism isn't that bad.(Again, not socialist)
Until all human beings realize that we are all in the same boat or at least most do, we will always have bad troubles. We all need decent food, housing, health care, civil rights, good pay for work, access to quality education without large debt, access to opportunity. Until we learn to quit falling for the bullshit of the Scott Walkers, George Bushes, Tony Blairs, and Barack Obamas of the world we will never get there. No more New World Order approved leaders. We must make our own leaders.
@heartfire451 u set it beautiful..and not just here my brother..all over the world the people who have no voice..we shall speak for them..and at least try to make the world a better place for us all rather than just rich people..i dont understand how annyone else cant see this? o yea i forgot watching sports is more fun..
@heartfire451 yes, but it's not even about making our own leaders, we must be our own leader. we must make our local communities ecologically and fiscally sustainable. stop looking anywhere else for the answer but to yourself. we each,everyone and everywhere need to take care of ourselves so abundantly that we have overflowing resources to help our neighbors. as long as we look to anyone else to care for us or be the answer for us, we will always be disadvantaged. it must be from and by us.
I love this song because it speaks of hope and there will always be hope as long as there are those who keep believing in freedom and the right of every person to be free.
@FlameBaiter oh right and there should b one race everyone should believe in fairy stories about other races. and think life is fucking lovely. im white and i believe that regardless of race or creed it is the individual that can make bad choices! now fuck you you racist cunt come and fight me u mong or maybe your to pussy
@ibidydo Let's not fight, 'kay? I agree with you, but let's not get mean about it; who knows? This FlameBaiter guy may be struggling with his own demons, and wants to take out his anger or pain on someone else.
I am the father of the 4th grader who posted. I just got home from work and he is sitting here, listening to this and posting. I am one proud dad. From the mouths of babes come simple truths. God Bless
@thekingofallpie : Your son makes me smile!!! As a child of the 80's that was taught this song, at her small all girls private school in the late 80's, for a school conncert... it has always had a special place in my heart. Good for your son to take intrest in such a song!! :) I now sing it with my Pre- K'ers
@thekingofallpie : Your son makes me smile!!! As a child of the 80's that was taught this song, at her small all girls private school in the late 80's, for a school conncert... it has always had a special place in my heart. Good for your son to take intrest in such a song!! :) I now sing it with my Pre- K'ers
who ever put dislike your crazy i just found this out today by my teacher and im only in 4th grade and i like this song its making me and my teacher cry....................so now no more saying dis like to this song if you are dating a white girl and your black you would not have been able to marry your wife if martin did not fight for our freedom and our rights that wight people think they are better then black people thank you god and martin luther king juiner thank god for doing that for us
Ye sentient beings of this Grid, should be ashamed of yourselves, bickering like fools in the Void (cuz thats all you are anyway) We all live in a world where we all grow old and die, why be disharmonious?
If you still believe that tho current problem of America is rasism you should wake up. But I guess you are really pissed off right now so I appreciate the fact that you love and respect the meaning of this (f**cking nah I'm just kidding) song.
in general you are either the far stupidest person I have ever saw a comment written by,
or you are just looking for attention by making your f**kng stupid comment
(I would suggest you figure out what this song is about, and report back to me with an apology to everyone who was and is opressed on this earth, thank you.)
@tantawi1992 Saying that this song is meaningless, is to approve of slavery. It is to say that Martin Luther King and millions of other freedom-fighters had a meaning-less culture that kept them together..
Oh you degenerate African Americans crying and bitching all the time bout' not being equal and all. Racism's over and done with. You had your fun, made your fuss, got your attention like a desperate child. Now get back to the cotton fields, yeh? White folk, teach your children to look out for the brutal, savage, rapist tendencies of the shit skins.
niggers, while you're at it...call me "master" .
Spread the message! Put the niggers where they belong- on the end of a nice long rope.
@tantawi1992 LOL---Another Republican claiming to be a liberal so people will listen to you. Again if you were a liberal you would not have the attitude you have. You don't understand what being a liberal is. So feel free with your response to denigrate and insult, that only proves further you are not liberal
@tantawi1992 Judging from your comment you obviously are a closet republican with a lot of repressed anger. perhaps you need to talk out your issues with somebody. A real liberal may have comment that this was not the style of music he likes. But then again a real liberal would know this song is not about you enjoying it, it is about the feeling it generates from a group of people working for a goal. I would appreciate it if you stop calling yourself a liberal, your aren't.
I had an oppurtunity to sing song along with cancer survivors holding their hands. Really that was a unforgetable moment in my life . Sure this song is highy inspirining.
I had an oppurtunity to sing song along with cancer survivors holding their hands. Really that was a unforgetable moment in my life . Sure this song is highy inspirining.
this song was originally a lutheran chant, written during the war with the catholic church! the social context was added centuries later by certain artists. Someone would think all of you proud, WASP nationalists would know this. Listen to the words and the music! This is a great song!
Shut the fuck up all of you this is just a song for all the dumbass niggers that got away from their fields and need to be put back in the pens to get whipped
My class listened to my teacher read his speach then do a paper on a world changing dream.THEN in music class listen to this
WeR2Cool2HaveAName 5 hours ago
im sorry im late but happy MLK day, and i have the preform this in my school for black history month.
fireant4000 1 week ago
MLK's bravery and the bravery of the "little" people who marched with him, supported him - it astounds me. I lived in Mississippi from 1974 to 1980, and the racism, the hatred was so open. People say it's changed, and if it has, it's thanks to the those people who marched, who voted, who were not afraid. Even though there was much discourse in the Civil Rights Movement when MLK died, what would the US be like today, if he had lived and kept on making us face our lies. He changed the world.
MTM60302 2 weeks ago
This is a good to listen to I'm black
DemonGal1000 2 weeks ago
happy mlk day
MultiBeyoncefan123 2 weeks ago
i sang this on jersey journal last friday with my class. BTW I'm only 11.
thedynamitemaster 2 weeks ago
51 dislikes 0 o how can you dislike this song yall crazy (to the people who disliked it) _
kayshawnlovesu 2 weeks ago
i remember learning this song like in the 4th grade now i am in the 10th grade martin luther king was a great man and i believe we shall overcome someday!!!
blacknbeatiful 2 weeks ago
Crucifier barack obama is OUT - if you even think of voting for that JESUS CHRIST CRUCIFIER you go to HELL
EternalJustice2 2 weeks ago
LORD PLEASE HELP THESE PEOPLE!!!!!!!! DO YOU KNOW THE MEAN OF THIS SONG!!!! AND WHY IT WAS SONG!!! PLEASE DON'T MOCK THIS SONG!!!!!!
momcoxs 2 weeks ago
وين جبتنا يابو آدم
وي شال أوفركام أكيد
llamunkey 2 weeks ago
A profound voice and a profound man...
theodpliske 2 weeks ago
People who hate and ridicule the occupiers as lazy scum who hypocritically wear and eat things made by corporations etc remind me of cops berating an old lady for a parking infringement while they ignore the violent armed bank robbery happening behind them. If they had a sense of perspective, they would realise that 400 individuals owning the same as the other 160 million people in the USA, is no longer tolerable !
stylophobia 4 weeks ago 4
@stylophobia great metaphore. There are a lot of things to critizice, but some enemies are bigger than others. Don't distinguish them is being an asshole. :)
cplasgaunas1 3 weeks ago
fuck you occupy wallstreet protesters this song has nothing to do with you quit whining and get a job to support our economy... stop making it worse
nomisaurr 1 month ago
@nomisaurr Who are you, nomisaurr? Are you Pete Seeger? If not, I wonder why you claim the right to speak in his name? I wonder if you like the song? If you consider yourself a peacemaker?
But, I bet you don't know that Pete Seeger performed at Occupy Wall Street in Oct. 2011 or that he played We Shall Overcome? Maybe you should find out what you're talking about before you say something the next time.
jimbojamesIV 2 weeks ago
@nomisaurr That awkward moment when you find out Pete Seeger performed this at an Occupy movement.
traveltalessg 7 hours ago
I do believe.
Antdog5 1 month ago
OCCUPY WALLSTREET!
HarperStudies 1 month ago
merry christmas...
Jostipi 1 month ago
tyujuj
KALER22g 1 month ago
We shall!
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The problem with the modern day folk scene (post 1960) is the fact that they were constantly for the nigger. No matter what the black community’s shortcomings were. They still are today. Wimpy white people bleeding for an ethnic group who would ultimately end up hating them for the very same reasons that the folkies hated the established American view of the blacks for: Because of the color of their skin. Black people are the most racist people on the face of the planet..
TerraceYouth 1 month ago
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TerraceYouth 1 month ago
Fabulous
mystihawk 1 month ago in playlist We shall overcome
I Love This Song -D
cinsinatey 1 month ago
yes peoples i am black
7567captainrex 1 month ago
@7567captainrex So?
cinephilefromhell 1 month ago
@cinephilefromhell because a lot of people think that only white people watch starwars
7567captainrex 4 weeks ago
we sang this during black history month
7567captainrex 1 month ago 3
This is the song of the People!
theodpliske 1 month ago
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Is it possible to listen to this song and not break down in joyous, hopeful tears? If you can, man, you must have a heart of iron.
theodpliske 1 month ago
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theodpliske 1 month ago
We shall overcome IF we strive to overcome. Apathy is our first enemy and empathy is the cure. We must overcome for the only other option is to let those who oppress ruin the world in which we all live (whether through ecological disaster, nuclear and enldess war, continued social stratification & the continued divisions they feed us to keep us from recognizing the systemic problems that we all suffer together. The wars on culture, terror, & drugs mask the real war- the class war initiated by WS
missionaryhollywood 2 months ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Pete Seeger
It's saddens me to think that maybe we've seen all these men and women of peace come through history and change things just so we could have thie generation of apathy that I'm living in now. NOW! Our world faces some of the toughest questions and challenges it's ever had to face and everyone around me is fighting over blenders at wal-mart on black friday.
johnnychaos91185 2 months ago
Beautiful song!
1304HELGA 2 months ago
Ooh ah up the rah!
ThelNobbler 2 months ago
OCCUPY TOGETHER!
HayabusaGrrrl 2 months ago 2
all we need to survive is love and some more love
trenttttt09 2 months ago
Religion is the only thing that stop the poor from killing the rich. But we are the 99% and We shall overcome.
NubiaSahara 2 months ago
=)
TheTHEEBONYLOUNGE 2 months ago
We love to sing this song replacing: "We'll walk hand in hand " with " We are walking" and "someday" with "today".:-)
IsmailAndGeorge 3 months ago
all you need is love, love, love, love, and I repeat it, all you need is love
furbonus 3 months ago
OCCUPY TOGETHER!
iAMaPOTTERdork 3 months ago 41
@iAMaPOTTERdork
really?
7567captainrex 1 month ago
@7567captainrex
yup.
iAMaPOTTERdork 1 month ago
start singing this protesters and patriots!!!
lotr123sw123456 3 months ago
We ALREADY OVERCAME. SHUT UP WITH THIS SONG YOU RACISTS.
santran 3 months ago
@santran Don't bait the troll
xenon1919 3 months ago
@greatstone00 that's deep man deep
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To all the homosexuals all over the world who are shunned, harassed, persecuted, ridiculed, bullied, oppressed, jailed, tortured, and/or murdered for being born who you are: Keep fighting for your human rights and dignity. You are fighting the good fight. One day bigotry and hate will fade into the shadows and the world will be much brighter.
greatestone00 3 months ago
To the heterosexuals reading this, remember that you also may belong to a group that was once oppressed and others that were unlike you fought for your human rights and dignity. Please return the favor. We all share this one Earth and no one is going anywhere. So let's all just get along and enjoy the ride together.
greatestone00 3 months ago 4
#OCCUPYWALLSTREET
nisto95 3 months ago 19
Check out the new MLK song "FULL JUSTICE" on Youtube. Get ready to be inspired. Watch it now!!
MatttthewF 4 months ago
I'm Canadian and I wish I could vote for Ron Paul
MichaelBallack91 4 months ago
When the Power of Love overcomes the Love of Power, the World will know Peace. - Jimi Hendrix
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pls rate my protestsong anno 2011?
Combinia 4 months ago
I heard this song in this movie called my name is Khan and the movie makes me proud to be a muslim or at least half muslim and the movie made me cry alot but its really happy too and i loved it
MsDana61794 4 months ago
I am from INDIA, it's just amazing, so inspiring, i would like to compare the writer of this song to Sh. RABINDER NATH TAGORE, writer of INDIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM.
battavarun 4 months ago
Remember singing this song around a camp fire in Scouts camp back in India. Good days.
ehopeinjesus 5 months ago
r/IAMA ISN'T BEING DELETED :'D
squirrelboi1 5 months ago
the real communist manifesto
freebrainstorms 5 months ago
@freebrainstorms That's right buddy, bathe in your own stupidity.
Rodiren94 5 months ago
this song used to be sung everyday in the morning during my school prayer. Good times, optimistic, beautiful
MegaSodom 5 months ago
I had an opportunity of listeniing live to another folk singer named James Durst.. During his performance he kept on mentioning Pete Seeger n kept singing his versions of seeger songs... Now when I am listening to this song It keeps reminding me of that marvalous performance I witnessed in 2004 .....
prashantkarade 6 months ago
my name is khan
TheYasin97 6 months ago
peace be on earth delivered from the arms of men and women
chrisbotron 6 months ago
這歌，不止送給中國車毀人亡事件的死難者，生還者及其家屬，更送給廣大被壓迫的人們！願我們終有一日，能相親相愛地活在美好的世界。
faningmonisor4 6 months ago
old song but still applicable
We shall live in peace someday…we shall overcome someday…
hasanthagunaweera 6 months ago
The comments on this video are shameful. Remember Ghandi, peacfeul resistance is the method to overcome.
beachguitar123 7 months ago
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faningmonisoryim 7 months ago
leftist liberal self hating white traitor (uncle tom in reverse)... you shame us...
MrPierrejohansen 7 months ago
@MrPierrejohansen YOU R THE TYPE OF PERSON WHO STEALS PENNIES FROM DEAD MEN EYES PETE IS A NATIONAL TREASURE WHO SPEAKS OF THE PEOPLE AND FOR THE PEOPLE BIG GOVERNMENT IS NOT GOOD FOR WORKING PEOPLE WEALTH IS BUILT ON WORKERS BACKS
edge2052 7 months ago
thekingofallpie
You have every right to be a proud dad, and thank your son for me!
intercomsec 7 months ago
This is the song of every body , I love it , I learned it when I was young in the middle school ROD AMAR in Algeria (north Africa) , My teacher was Mrs LAASSEL. I hope she's fine.
ktirsatine7 7 months ago
what happened to the minorities these days? like 40 years ago you were literally second class, inferior. Today, so many youth are trying so hard to return to that class..
LordKaisen 8 months ago
"I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the Churches made of it." ~Pete Seeger
Long live the revolution! :)
VideoFreeMichael 8 months ago 4
great song ;)
giniered 8 months ago
who would dislike this song, Confederates?
Mrjamesrocks1 8 months ago
RIP bloody sunday victims
TheM01022 8 months ago 4
@TheM01022 RIP IRA victims.
Morglay 8 months ago
@TheM01022 RIP innocent victims of the terrorism of the IRA.
organist12345 7 months ago
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We shall overcum
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clubpenguin235 9 months ago
@clubpenguin235 moron <.<
Philadelphia90 8 months ago
@clubpenguin235 wow realllyylyllyly
bamer2324 7 months ago
Thank you for a great song! Like father, like son. eijiro odagiri, peace and music lover from Yokohama, Japan
eijigosen 9 months ago
i am a 2nd grader and i did this song in the play and a other thing i went to north star and sing it ddddddaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
franciscoviera 9 months ago
I do believe that 90% of the worlds population regardless of political beliefs,ethnicity or religious belief want to live in peace, unfortunately that 90% let the 10% dictate and instgate their greedy self serving agendas, but my friends i do believe we wil;l wake up, and for the sake of my and your children and grandchildren i hope and pray that i'm proven correct, Nameste, Shanti, Peace to all my brothers and sisters.
karwillmc 9 months ago 15
I do believe. :)
jmldspt 9 months ago 3
@uatwmf On ethnic basis, something which Germany/Austria of course do not even consider to do.
dinavienna 9 months ago
when seeing their fellow Arabs were being killed, raped, expelled? You could sell then and at least get some compensation, or be expelled without compensation later. Very similar dynamics to what the Third Reich in the early years did - and the very reason descendants of "sellers" get much of their property restituted or compensated even decades later now. Of course something to be dreamt of - not only does Israel not restitute, it will not let Palestinians enter the land of their ascendants.
dinavienna 9 months ago
@uatwmf I agree in part, but you forget one important thing: the Zionists/Jews/first Israelis have "cleansed" what was part of Palestine and was to become Israel of most of the ethnic minority, by murder, rape and other terror as well as more or less "consensual" sale of land (do not forget much of today's restitution of Aryanized property in Germany/Austria was "officially" sold, too, not expropriated; but how free were the Jews selling their property to Nazis, how free were the Palestinians
dinavienna 9 months ago
Even on the comments for this song, people are still bickering about who started what an who's the real problem. It takes two sides to have a war. No side is free of blame. I would've thought that the comments here would've been better. Peace is the message.
tlm19670 9 months ago 9
This speaks to ANY good person in this world of any color, religion, sex, etc!
TheUraha 10 months ago
"We shall overcome! , Shit, I don't overcome, I go insane" - Red Foxx.
Great song. 5/5
supah1337B 10 months ago
Love Pete Seeger....a hero for working people and a talented one at that. By the way, the whole "Jews as oppressers thing" and "Palestine" don't really work considering Jews led the civil rights struggle and the fact that Palestinians engage in acts of terrorism rather than civil disobedience. Also, they have been offered generous peace deals several times in the past and are better off than most Arabs, so shove it.
DJSolomon94 10 months ago
@DJSolomon94
Unfortunately, the government of Israel, with American political and financial backing, does impose a
brutal occupation of the Palestinian people. The images do not lie.
TheDAT573 10 months ago 3
@DJSolomon94 clearly coming from someone who has zero understanding of Palestinian suffering. Enjoy living in your little bubble you ignorant prick.
DazedNC0nfuzed 9 months ago 2
@DJSolomon94 "Generous peace deals" after illegal immigrants expropriated them of their Native land of many centuries with the help of the international community - are you kidding yourself? Which civil rights in your opinion do Jews lead in Palestine and Israel? The Jews who build Jew-only roads? The Jews who continue to ethnically expropriate Arab property and build Jewish housing in Jerusalem, inter alia (what's the difference to Aryanization again?)? The Jews who demand allegiance vows of
dinavienna 9 months ago
@DJSolomon94 the remaining Arab minority within Israel, vows on the Israeli flag (what's the difference to Jewish assimiliation in Germany before WWII, except that there the government did not try to officially make Jews swear allegiance to the Germans and extermination of deviant thinking/solidarity with one's own kind?)?
I can hardly believe a pro-Israeli man, Jew or non-Jew, can honestly love Pete Seeger and his work. At the very least they fail to understand him.
dinavienna 9 months ago
That song is sang right after the national anthem to start every meeting of the local Minutemen. Let us all pray that they do overcome the powerful and evil forces aligned against them --- liberals, open-borders freaks, the US Chamber of Commerce/greedy scumbag employers of illegal aliens, the ACLU, the SPLC, La Raza, the mainstream media, and most federal politicians of either party.
american37 10 months ago
@american37 How very freaking ironic. Right-wing loons singing a leftist song that became a standard of the civil rights movement and bitching about liberals and the Southern Poverty Law Center. You people don't know left from right--or probably up from down. Oh, deep in my heart, I do believe we will overcome goofballs such as you.
newdarnaccount 10 months ago 3
@newdarnaccount Si si puede!
american37 10 months ago
Pete Seeger a True American Hero.
TheDAT573 10 months ago
note his original contribution -- the last verse "the whole wide world around" -- certainly in part a legacy of his socialist internationalism
freeunion 10 months ago
By the way everybody, I'm not socialist or anything, but I felt the need to clarify: socalism is just government ownership and control over production. COMMUNISM is the government having power over everything, and having everybody be equal.
Actually, though socialism isn't strong in America, countries like France, Switzerland, and England are more socialist than us, so, really, socialism isn't that bad.(Again, not socialist)
...Just clarifying.
pandagirl123 10 months ago
33 people need to overcome their own personal demons.
pandagirl123 10 months ago
What a great video and song, we sang this at my church as part of the Anti-Salvery in Africa Day (aka: Freedom Day).
MisakiX2 10 months ago
No one did it better then Pete, his charisma and reality brought to the song was magnificent.
desidoe69 10 months ago 2
30 people need to overcome themselves.
fatheroflatus 11 months ago 2
i do like this song, but fascists are those who don't put up with other's opinions becuse they can imagine no other valid opinion than theirs.
loscantos 11 months ago
Canción fascistoide.
joelleleslieari 11 months ago
Until all human beings realize that we are all in the same boat or at least most do, we will always have bad troubles. We all need decent food, housing, health care, civil rights, good pay for work, access to quality education without large debt, access to opportunity. Until we learn to quit falling for the bullshit of the Scott Walkers, George Bushes, Tony Blairs, and Barack Obamas of the world we will never get there. No more New World Order approved leaders. We must make our own leaders.
heartfire451 11 months ago 49
@heartfire451 u set it beautiful..and not just here my brother..all over the world the people who have no voice..we shall speak for them..and at least try to make the world a better place for us all rather than just rich people..i dont understand how annyone else cant see this? o yea i forgot watching sports is more fun..
tanvo93 9 months ago
@heartfire451 ...you couldn't have left that shit alone in just this one video
tylerblogger 5 months ago
@heartfire451 yes, but it's not even about making our own leaders, we must be our own leader. we must make our local communities ecologically and fiscally sustainable. stop looking anywhere else for the answer but to yourself. we each,everyone and everywhere need to take care of ourselves so abundantly that we have overflowing resources to help our neighbors. as long as we look to anyone else to care for us or be the answer for us, we will always be disadvantaged. it must be from and by us.
ainmire42 3 months ago
Thank you very much for posting.
jgottung 11 months ago
:P This is my School's song!!! We always sing it during assembly!!!!AWESOME!!!!
JB2Maceren 11 months ago
I love this song because it speaks of hope and there will always be hope as long as there are those who keep believing in freedom and the right of every person to be free.
oneofthechosen 11 months ago 2
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niggers belong back in cages
FlameBaiter 11 months ago
@FlameBaiter oh right and there should b one race everyone should believe in fairy stories about other races. and think life is fucking lovely. im white and i believe that regardless of race or creed it is the individual that can make bad choices! now fuck you you racist cunt come and fight me u mong or maybe your to pussy
ibidydo 11 months ago
@ibidydo write down your name and address in the space provided and i will 'come and fight' you. cuckold.
FlameBaiter 11 months ago
@FlameBaiter 89 your mums house texas
ibidydo 11 months ago
@ibidydo thats what i thought. it was wise of you to back down. sissy.
FlameBaiter 11 months ago
@FlameBaiter you wouldnt give me your adress so realy your the pussy.
ibidydo 11 months ago
@ibidydo Let's not fight, 'kay? I agree with you, but let's not get mean about it; who knows? This FlameBaiter guy may be struggling with his own demons, and wants to take out his anger or pain on someone else.
pandagirl123 10 months ago
@ibidydo don't you know anything about not feeding trolls?
SWAGassNIGGA 10 months ago
@FlameBaiter why are you ruining the spirit of this song?
matttv824 11 months ago
and foe evrone who doesnt like this you need to go go church more often because its all about peace but if u dont learn and think about it!~!
oakcliff6foota 11 months ago
we are singing this song at school its so powerful
oakcliff6foota 11 months ago
omg we shall overcum
lyricals8killa 11 months ago
Jesus will return, Jesus will return, Jesus will return someday !
SPARKSNEVADA777 11 months ago
I am the father of the 4th grader who posted. I just got home from work and he is sitting here, listening to this and posting. I am one proud dad. From the mouths of babes come simple truths. God Bless
thekingofallpie 11 months ago 106
@thekingofallpie God bless you and your children!!!!
ericyanikov 9 months ago
@thekingofallpie I'm in fourth grade, and our music class uses this song
clubpenguin235 9 months ago
@thekingofallpie Sweet!! Best wishes, man!
Kitfugl 9 months ago
@thekingofallpie children are the real wisdom on this planet
imcrzy4me 5 months ago
@thekingofallpie : Your son makes me smile!!! As a child of the 80's that was taught this song, at her small all girls private school in the late 80's, for a school conncert... it has always had a special place in my heart. Good for your son to take intrest in such a song!! :) I now sing it with my Pre- K'ers
TreyButler33 4 months ago
@thekingofallpie : Your son makes me smile!!! As a child of the 80's that was taught this song, at her small all girls private school in the late 80's, for a school conncert... it has always had a special place in my heart. Good for your son to take intrest in such a song!! :) I now sing it with my Pre- K'ers
Btw this is "treys" wife lol
TreyButler33 4 months ago
@thekingofallpie: heartening. i'd be proud too. :)
bishansamaddar 4 months ago
bless the fallin love ones amen
thekingofallpie 11 months ago
this song is so emotional and has powerful words by far
thekingofallpie 11 months ago
who ever put dislike your crazy i just found this out today by my teacher and im only in 4th grade and i like this song its making me and my teacher cry....................so now no more saying dis like to this song if you are dating a white girl and your black you would not have been able to marry your wife if martin did not fight for our freedom and our rights that wight people think they are better then black people thank you god and martin luther king juiner thank god for doing that for us
thekingofallpie 11 months ago 2
what does this song represent?
jsslns755 11 months ago
They're singing this in Egypt tonight.
Coelacanth1938 1 year ago
@Coelacanth1938 really
thekingofallpie 11 months ago
2 slow 4 me
i heard it slow but this is the country joint
lol
rofl
MsSporty214 1 year ago
Fantastica
balboa8811 1 year ago
la dobbiamo suonare col flauto domani a scuola!!!!!!!!! è bellissima!!!!
MrWsimo 1 year ago
Ye sentient beings of this Grid, should be ashamed of yourselves, bickering like fools in the Void (cuz thats all you are anyway) We all live in a world where we all grow old and die, why be disharmonious?
DismasX3 1 year ago 2
hum hongein kamyab
magicalgold010 1 year ago
disable comments so people stop flaming each other in the comment sections of songs like this
IGotTheTouch 1 year ago 3
This song gives me chills
corrina253 1 year ago
If you still believe that tho current problem of America is rasism you should wake up. But I guess you are really pissed off right now so I appreciate the fact that you love and respect the meaning of this (f**cking nah I'm just kidding) song.
TlsChris 1 year ago
This song is part of my soul
FERRAN1950 1 year ago
@FERRAN1950 me to its so emoshinal
thekingofallpie 11 months ago
This is my sould.
FERRAN1950 1 year ago
Well...
in general the song is far the stupidest thing I ever heard :P
I don't know why i am still listening to this f**kng song
TlsChris 1 year ago
@TlsChris Well...
in general you are either the far stupidest person I have ever saw a comment written by,
or you are just looking for attention by making your f**kng stupid comment
(I would suggest you figure out what this song is about, and report back to me with an apology to everyone who was and is opressed on this earth, thank you.)
gfalcetano 1 year ago
@TlsChris u should respect this song becuse ur talking rude to jesus
janineflows 1 year ago
@tantawi1992 What, pray tell, does that have to do with the price of koa in Hawaii?
odinfromcentr2 1 year ago
It is an inspiring song. It depends what it is applied to, and what you are seeking to overcome!
mindspring57 1 year ago
This is a beautiful song.
Molizen 1 year ago 2
@tantawi1992 Saying that this song is meaningless, is to approve of slavery. It is to say that Martin Luther King and millions of other freedom-fighters had a meaning-less culture that kept them together..
Liberal or not, your ignorance is clear.
snakeweirdo 1 year ago
@tantawi1992 how could you say such a thing
mockingbirdark 1 year ago
tucson arz. jan8 2011 we shall overcome. bless the fallen and loved ones amen.
bubbah671 1 year ago
LIBERTAD divino tesoro. Pete más que divino socialista con todo su cerebro y su corazón
888sabela 1 year ago
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Oh you degenerate African Americans crying and bitching all the time bout' not being equal and all. Racism's over and done with. You had your fun, made your fuss, got your attention like a desperate child. Now get back to the cotton fields, yeh? White folk, teach your children to look out for the brutal, savage, rapist tendencies of the shit skins.
niggers, while you're at it...call me "master" .
Spread the message! Put the niggers where they belong- on the end of a nice long rope.
DrinkFromMyThickDick 1 year ago
@tantawi1992 LOL---Another Republican claiming to be a liberal so people will listen to you. Again if you were a liberal you would not have the attitude you have. You don't understand what being a liberal is. So feel free with your response to denigrate and insult, that only proves further you are not liberal
Cimiar 1 year ago
@tantawi1992 Judging from your comment you obviously are a closet republican with a lot of repressed anger. perhaps you need to talk out your issues with somebody. A real liberal may have comment that this was not the style of music he likes. But then again a real liberal would know this song is not about you enjoying it, it is about the feeling it generates from a group of people working for a goal. I would appreciate it if you stop calling yourself a liberal, your aren't.
Cimiar 1 year ago
I had an oppurtunity to sing song along with cancer survivors holding their hands. Really that was a unforgetable moment in my life . Sure this song is highy inspirining.
kplathamoopanar 1 year ago
I had an oppurtunity to sing song along with cancer survivors holding their hands. Really that was a unforgetable moment in my life . Sure this song is highy inspirining.
kplathamoopanar 1 year ago
did know this was that song music...
man me hai viswas.. poora hai viswas,.. hum honge kamyiyab.
jai hind.
gansvv 1 year ago
i have to sing this for school winter concert
lightningwolf321 1 year ago
this song was originally a lutheran chant, written during the war with the catholic church! the social context was added centuries later by certain artists. Someone would think all of you proud, WASP nationalists would know this. Listen to the words and the music! This is a great song!
moutrhrouas 1 year ago
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Shut the fuck up all of you this is just a song for all the dumbass niggers that got away from their fields and need to be put back in the pens to get whipped
smag213 1 year ago