We’re taught what’s right and wrong before we understand the choice
What love should look like, who should fit, whose truth deserves a voice
But being taught what’s normal doesn't make one life worth more
Differences aren't reasons to deny who rights are for
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Let's start right here in Canton, where Ryan screamed in fear
Someone heard enough to know, then they chose to disappear
Still this city searched and rallied, proving many cared
While others let their judgment drown the empathy they shared
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They call this country free, say acceptance will be shown
But many still condemn the lives that differ from their own
If equal only matters when your choices look the same
Then your open-minded promises are just a bull shit game
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You didn’t have to understand to know his life had worth
You didn’t have to share his truth for him to have walked this earth
Your faith, comfort, and judgment don’t decide who gets to be
His rights belonged to him, not your fake morality
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In Duhok, Iraq, Doski was murdered by her kin
Her brother came from Germany, then fled back there again
She was shot, left there to die, her life cut short that day
Another so-called honor killing took her life away
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If honor here means you can’t love, respect, or let them be
Then your honor is just hatred dressed in false morality
If someone else existing brings dishonor to your name
Then it likely wasn't them that brought your name the shame
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In Chechnya, 2017, you're taken if they think you're gay
No proof was ever needed, just suspicion cleared the way
Beaten, shocked, and tortured, then exposed before their kin
Some were sent back home where they were taught you are a sin
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If their law can make suspicion good enough to strip your rights
And your home can turn against you after government ignites
Then what is left for safety when both family and state
Can turn a rumor into fear and fear itself into hate
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We don’t have to understand to know their lives have worth
We don’t have to share their truths for them to walk this earth
Our faith, comfort, and judgment shouldn’t decide who gets to be
Their rights belong to them, not our fake morality
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In twenty twenty-three Uganda put hate into law
Love could mean a lifetime locked behind a prison wall
Aggravated cases carry death as penalty
While power calls oppression law, and strips humanity
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When prejudice gets written down and stamped with legal might
And scripture gets distorted just to say that hate is right
Then silence helps the system keep oppression in its place
And then every law left standing puts more hatred in its face
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You don’t have to understand to know their lives have worth
You don’t have to share their truths for them to walk this earth
Your faith, comfort, and judgment don’t decide who gets to be
Their rights belong to them, not your fake morality
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Stop twisting holy scripture just to justify your fear
Stop calling cruelty moral when the damage is this clear
You don’t get to sit guilt-free and watch their rights denied
If you could have helped and remained passively aside
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You don’t have to understand for their lives to have worth
You don’t have to share their truths for them to grace this earth
Your selective faith and judgment don’t decide who gets to be
Their rights belong to them, not your bull shit morality
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