Raise Up! The evolution has begun! The quiet tune that has through time been sung Now calls to dance a turning world that’s heard The music but has not evolved as one. We sing an evolutionary air, Not revolutionary. War forswear And raise, not rise. Raise up all men as one And be of those a path a peace prepare. We sing a song of non-violent, well informed, Engaged, determined, deft, conjointly formed And conscious social evolution. Sing And dance with us—the world will be transfo...

I am so delighted with diversity. It’s all the rage for me. ‘Though some may pass On its fine charms and rage against my set, I’ll still be charmed with everything that’s made The world so right. I simply cannot bear To think how dull the world would be if on Us all some moldy mold was settled on. Boring! What’s life without diversity? What force of pall would force us all to pass Some test of similarity? Who’d set The standards we’d have to meet? Wou...

Muhammad Yunus, micro financier And founder of the growing Grameen Bank, I cheer The evolutionary strides you’ve made In bringing the poor some needed banking aid. With just a twenty-seven dollar start, In Nineteen-Seventy-Six, you put your heart To work in Bangladesh to find a way A simple bank could poverty allay. You loaned to those who had the greatest need And guided them until they did succeed. And when they paid you back, you loaned again Until your bank became a great campaign. ...

For peace the nations speak with one Resounding voice to say: The end of wars can be achieved If we united stay. For peace the poets sing their songs And plead with those who hear: Please, let us now renounce our hate And conquer all our fear. For peace the saints all teach that God Would have men freely live, So let’s now live as God would have And each the past forgive. For peace the Sufis build a bridge From God to man below, So let’s receive the blessings that Our God’s love does bestow. ...

Yes, Doctor King, it is your praise I raise! You were Drum Major in the noble quest For freedom in a world of dispossessed. You changed the world by serving the oppressed. Your voice and willingness to serve I praise! “Avoid romanticizing King,” some say. “He was no saint.” And they say I do Disservice to you and them to view You more than the common man they knew. They say that I your memory betray. But I will celebrate your soul: *You did your duty as a Christian ought; *You brought salvati...

Rolihlahla Mandela, may your name Be always raised when we Great Souls proclaim. Your noble struggle in South Africa to end Apartheid’s blight on black and white and mend The painful past that held such dominance Was more than just of local consequence. It has reverberated ‘round the world. It has a new peace consciousness unfurled. Because you chose to use non-violence to remove Apartheid from the land, you helped improve The lives of those oppressed, without A bloody revolutionary rout. You...

Mohandas Gandhi, the Mahatma for our age, You gave us all the tools we need to make a peace That gives to each their dignity. You were the sage Of peace. You taught that we must first our hate surcease Before we can create a peace that will engage The hearts of all and cause the cause of war to cease. You taught that how we win the peace is just as key As having peace if we that peace would guarantee. Now some would say the tactics used by you could not Be used today. They say the world has c...

Mohandas Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Mandela, Tutu, Mother Teresa, all Of history’s Great Souls: Their songs I sing. Yes: there are more in this my heroes’ hall: There are names of fame and names of those whose lives Are less well known. For all I have a homage song. Because of them the evolution thrives! Because of them we are a mighty throng! They’ve shown that each of us can be Great Souls If each of us would raise our fellow man And serve a cause of great and noble goals. They’ve shown ag...

We stand for what is righteous and humane. Because we know our cause, we understand We stand so all the world may grow and gain. We know this path is rough. The grain To flee or fight we know we must withstand. We stand for what is righteous and humane. We must our fear and anger always reign. We must be firmly set in our soul’s command. We stand so all the world may grow and gain. Alone or in a crowd, we must as one remain The same. We work for all in meekness and We stand for what is righte...

Doctor Shiva’s saving seeds For those who sow and reap. Doctor Shiva’s serving those With promises to keep. “Don’t allow the pharmacies To patent all our seeds,” Doctor Shiva warns the world, “Their greed it only breeds.” “Pharmaceutical controlled Monopolies on seeds, Starves the world unless we pay To fatten their proceeds.” Doctor Shiva’s movement is What serves the world complete. Saving seeds for those who sow Makes sense for all who eat. Join in her non-violent path To save our future f...