is a 1969 song by the soul/rock/funk band Sly and the Family Stone Issued as a single that year by Epic Records, it reached number 22 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 14 on the Hot Soul Songs charts.

[1][2][3] The song's title and lyrics are a call for its listeners to "stand" up for themselves, their communities, and what they believe in.

Like nearly all of Sly & the Family Stone's songs, Sylvester "Sly Stone" Stewart was credited as the sole songwriter.

garnered a warm, yet unenthusiastic, reaction when Sly Stone had an early acetate of the record played in a San Francisco club.

As a result, Stone went back into the studio and had the song's final section, a fevered gospel music-styled break, rerecorded.