Organize or die. Organize and die. While the old and rich feast on blood and gold, our children’s lives are cheaply sold.

Kids Who Die This is for the kids who die, Black and white, For kids will die certainly. The old and rich will live on awhile, As Always, Eating blood and gold, Letting kids die. Kids will die in the swamps of Mississippi Organizing sharecroppers Kids will die in the streets of Chicago Organizing workers Kids will die in the orange groves of California Telling others to get together Whites and Filipinos, Negroes and Mexicans, All kinds of kids will die Who don’t believe in lies, and bribes, and contentment And a lousy peace. Langston Hughes (published in 1938) https://daily.loras.edu/the-prophetic-poetry-of-langston-hughes/