h others to not be prejudiced. In the last three lines "Let our rejoicing rise, High as the listening skies, Let it resound loud as the rolling sea" (1.4-6) they're declaring that blacks make their worth known, so even inanimate objects hear and respond.
             Sing a song full of the faith that the
             Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us;
             facing the rising sun of our new day begun,
             let us march on till victory is won.
             In this stanza, James explains that they shouldn't sing just any song off the top of their head. They should put what facts they've learned from their history into it. Similarly, the lines "Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has taught us Sing a song full of the hope that the present has brought us" (2.1-3) expresses that James wants them to fill the listeners with a spirit so great, that they will know what you've wished and hoped for, what you don't want to go through again. The stanza then ends with "facing the rising sun of our new day begun, let us march on till victory is won" which indicates that he wants blacks to be facing toward the changes of a new day when they speak, not towards the past. Moreover, they should not
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