A Tribute to the Palestinian People
To the innocent civilians – men, women and children, whose blood are watering the sacred and ancient soils of Palestine
To Justice and civilised values
To the rejections of racism and fascism
To the rejection of foreign occupations of Palestinian land
To the exorcism of the Third Reich
To peace and prosperity for the peoples of the Middle East
"If We Must Die"
By Clause McKay
If we must die,
let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursed lot.
If we must die, O let us nobly die
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
O kinsmen! We must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one death blow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
Editorial Collective
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Source: Claude McKay, “If We Must Die,” in Harlem Shadows: The Poems of Claude McKay (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1922).
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