Artist	Song
Aretha Franklin	Respect
from Aretha Franklin: 30 Greatest Hits (2008)
Sly & the Family Stone	Everyday People
from The Essential Sly & the Family Stone (2002)
James Brown	Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud, Pts. 1 & 2 (Single)
from JB40 (40th Anniversary Collection) (1996)
Nina Simone	I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free
from Silk & Soul (2006)
The Impressions	Choice of Colors
from The Young Mods' Forgotten Story (2006)
Neil Young	Southern Man
from Neil Young: Greatest Hits (2004)
Harry Belafonte	Oh, Freedom
from Harry Belafonte: Greatest Hits (2000)
Alicia Keys	A Woman's Worth
from Songs In A Minor (2001)
Stevie Wonder & Paul McCartney	Ebony & Ivory
from The Complete Stevie Wonder (2005)
The Byrds	Chimes Of Freedom
from Greatest Hits (1999)
The Chi-Lites	(For God's Sake) Give More Power to the People
from The Chi-Lites: 20 Greatest Hits (2001)
Eurythmics	Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves
from Eurythmics: Ultimate Collection (Remastered) (2005)
Midnight Oil	Beds Are Burning
from 20000 Watt RSL - The Midnight Oil Collection (Remastered) (2008)
The Stylistics	People Make the World Go Round
from The Best of the Stylistics (1975)
Loretta Lynn	The Pill
from Country Music Hall of Fame Series: Loretta Lynn (1991)
Frank Sinatra	The House I Live In
from A Man and His Music (2009)
Angie Stone	My People
from The Art of Love & War (2007)
Depeche Mode	People Are People
from The Best of Depeche Mode, Vol. 1 (Deluxe Version) (2006)
Common	The People
from Finding Forever (2007)
Donny Hathaway	Someday We'll All Be Free
from A Donny Hathaway Collection (2007)
India.Arie	Video
from Acoustic Soul (2001)
Indigo Girls	Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
from 1200 Curfews (Live) (1995)
Rage Against the Machine	Maria
from The Battle of Los Angeles (1999)
Melissa Etheridge	Silent Legacy
from Yes I Am (1993)
Rod Stewart	The Killing of Georgie (Pt. I & II)
from The Definitive Rod Stewart (Deluxe Version) (2008)

Comment:

People are People. Depeche Mode sure made it sound simple, didn't they? Well, it is: Underneath it all — man or woman, gay or straight, black or white, boomer, Gen-X, -Y, or -Z — there's a beating heart and a deep-seated need to be treated without prejudice. Hard to believe that "Respect" was written by a man (and not just any man, but Otis Redding), especially when Aretha Franklin turbo-charges it into a high-heel stomp that became a women's rights manifesto; and if its soul-shakin' significance doesn't come in loud and clear [i]enough[/i], well, she spells it out for us: "R-E-S-P-E-C-T." In "Southern Man," Neil Young sweeps down from the Great White North like an avenging angel, seething with the righteous rage of racial justice as yet unrealized, clawing at his Les Paul in a firestorm of fury and fuzz that would inspire a rebel slapback from Lynyrd Skynyrd in "Sweet Home Alabama." And at the height of the Civil Rights Movement, James Brown was [i]living[/i] Black Power; with the clenched-fist shout-out of "Say It Loud, I'm Black and I'm Proud," the Godfather of Soul urges his brothers and sisters to do the same. From Frank Sinatra to India.Arie, we've got the songs that energized, empowered, and enlightened a nation that's not always as united as its name implies.

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