Everyone is crying out for peace, yes

None is crying out for justice


Everyone is crying out for peace, yes


None is crying out for justice




I don't want no peace


I need equal rights and justice

I need equal rights and justice


I need equal rights and justice


Got to get it, equal rights and justice




Everybody want to go to heaven


But nobody want to die, Father of the Jesus

Everybody want to go up to heaven


But none of them, none of them want to die




I don't want no peace


I man need equal rights and justice


I got to get it, equal rights and justice

I really need it, equal rights and justice


Just give me my share, equal rights and justice




What is due to Caesar


You better give it all to Caesar, yeah, yeah, yeah


And what belong to I and I

You better, you better give it up to I





'Cause I don't want no peace

I need equal rights and justice


I need equal rights and justice


I have got to get it, equal rights and justice

I'm a fighting for it, equal rights and justice





Everyone is heading for the top

But tell me how far is it from the bottom


Nobody knows but everyone fighting for the top


How far is it from the bottom




I don't want no peace

I need equal rights and justice


I need equal rights and justice

I have got to get it, equal rights and justice

I really need it, equal rights and justice




Everyone is talking about crime


Tell me who are the criminals

I said everyone is talking about crime, crime

Tell me who, who are the criminals


I really don't see them



I don't want no peace


I need equal rights and justice

We got to get equal rights and justice

And there will be no crime, equal rights and justice


There will be no criminals, equal rights and justice



Everyone is fighting for equal rights and justice

Palestinians are fighting for equal rights and justice


Down in Angola, equal rights and justice

Down in Botswana, equal rights and justice

Down in Zimbabwe, equal rights and justice


Down in Rhodesia, equal rights and justice