Praise: "Now it’s time for me to praise you". Praise means to approve something and express the way you feel about it. This goes with my song because it's all about giving the Lord praise because he helps us march straight through challenges (Ayubu, Kani). Many Civil Rights leaders like: Martin Luther King Jr., Mary McLeod Bethune, Malcolm X, Duke Ellington, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, W.E.B DuBois, Frederick Douglass, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Coretta Scott King, George Washington Carver, and Thomas Dorsey would pray and sing about the Lord helping them and their people overcome many things that the African American community is facing. One of the prayers is by Mary McLeod Bethune. "Father, we call Thee Father because we love Thee. We are glad to be called Thy children, and to dedicate our lives to the service that extends through willing hearts and hands to the betterment of all mankind. We send a cry of Thanksgiving for people of all races, creeds, classes, and colors the world over, and pray that through the instrumentality of our lives the spirit of peace, joy, fellowship, and brotherhood shall circle the world. We know that
this world is filled with discordant notes, but help us, Father, to so unite our efforts that we may all join in one harmonious symphony for peace and brotherhood, justice, and equality of opportunity for all men. The tasks performed today with forgiveness for all our errors, we dedicate, dear Lord, to Thee.
Grant us strength and courage and faith and humility sufficient
for the tasks assigned to us."
(Lawrence Puck).