Lean on Me
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and what they think
about your chances.

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They say you are inferior.
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Come on!
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Come on!
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Come on! Come on!
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"You are just a bunch of niggers
and spics and poor white trash."

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"Education is wasted on you."
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"You cannot learn!"
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You're lost!
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I mean all of you.
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I want all the white students
to stand up.

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All my white students,
stand up.

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Come on.
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Stand up.
Stand up.

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That's it.
Come on, stand up.

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These are my white children,
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and they're the same
as all of you.

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They've got no place to go.
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Otherwise, they would have
abandoned us a long time ago,

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but they couldn't.
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So here they are at eastside,
just like the rest of us.

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You can sit down.
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Are you getting my point,
people?

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Yes!
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Is it sinking in?
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Yes!
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We sink, we swim.
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We rise, we fall.
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We meet our fate together!
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Now, it took the help
of a good, good friend

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to make me know
and understand that,

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and i do understand it,
and i'm grateful.

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I'm eternally grateful.
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And i've got a message
for those people out there

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who've abandoned you
and written you off.

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Can you hear me?
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Yes!
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Can you hear me?
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Yes!
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Good!
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You are not inferior!
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Your grades may be.
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Your school may have been.
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But you can turn that around

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