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Honor: When Sacrifice Outlasts the Nation's Memory
Justice isn’t the ceiling we hope for. It’s the minimum a country owes everyone.
About this anthem
Justice Is the Floor resets the moral standard. Justice is not a partisan aspiration, a campaign promise, or a distant goal. It is the minimum beneath which no policy, budget, institution, or nation should be permitted to fall.
The anthem names poverty as violence measured in human lives, and racism as something embedded not only in personal prejudice, but in law, land, and systems of power. It warns that rich and poor, people of every race and faith, remain vulnerable when they are separated into political and social silos.
But this is not only an anthem of indictment. It reaches back to the unfinished struggles of earlier generations and calls for a new reconstruction built through solidarity, courage, and the daily work of hope.
Justice Is the Floor is featured on Protect the Least of Us, the moral center of Barking Justice Radio’s Policy Becomes Harm reporting. Where that program tests every law and budget against the people who will carry its consequences, this anthem establishes the standard those decisions must meet: not charity, not mercy granted at someone else’s discretion, but a floor of human dignity through which no one is allowed to fall.
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Lyrics
Verse 1 — Moral Compass
Justice is not left or right, it’s the call of truth, it’s the will to fight. Not for party, not for gain, but for mercy’s sake, to break the chain.
Chorus
Justice is the floor. Justice is the floor. Every heart knows we can’t take less. Can’t take less! Justice is the floor, yeah, yeah, yeah!
Verse 2 — Fusion Politics
Rich and poor, Black and white, different faiths stand side by side. In our silos we always fall, but together we can change it all.
Chorus
Justice is the floor. Justice is the floor. Every heart knows we can’t take less. Can’t take less! Justice is the floor, yeah, yeah, yeah!
Verse 3 — Naming Poverty and Racism
Poverty is violence, it kills each day, eight hundred lives stolen away. Racism hides in the law, in the land, but we see the crime, we take our stand.
Chorus
Justice is the floor! Justice is the floor! No more silence, we’ll take no more. Take no more! Every voice, every door, justice is the floor!
Bridge — A Third Reconstruction
We are the heirs of the fights before, the dream deferred comes knocking once more. First they tried, then they tore it apart, now we rise again with a fiery heart.
CHORUS – Anthem Lift
Justice is the floor! Justice is the floor! Build it higher, we’ll reach for more! Reach for more! Every voice, every door, justice is the floor!
Verse 4 — Hope Rooted in Struggle
Hope is the work when the night is long, born of the pain, yet it makes us strong. Courage will spread when the people rise, one bold act can open the skies.
Final Chorus — Benediction
Justice is the floor. Justice is the floor. We won’t settle for less, we’re building more. Justice is the floor, justice is the floor.
Outro
Protect the least of us. Protect the least of us. Justice is the floor.
Spoken
Barking Justice Music, for every voice rising, we reach higher. Protect the least of us.
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Protect the Least of Us
The moral center of Barking Justice Radio’s Policy Becomes Harm reporting, testing every law, every budget, and every policy against who it protects.
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