We've Come A Long Way Together

We’ve come a long way to be
    together, you and me.
We’ve come a long way to be
    together, you and me.

It’s been a might distance,
    dangerous journey to be here.
It’s been a might distance,
    dangerous journey to be here.

It’s taken the sacrifice, so many of
    us to be one.
It’s taken the sacrifice, so many of
    us to be one.

And we’ll stay holding to each
    other fighting and trusting as we
    grow.

~Bernice Johnson Reagon

Since the early days of her participation in the Civil Rights Movement, when a generation of young people convinced the U.S. nation that legal segregation was wrong, Bernice Johnson Reagon has been on a song journey in search of freedom, justice and equality. ~ from Give Your Hands to Struggle (1975)