"Still I Rise":

https://poets.org/poem/still-i-rise

that brought the memory back. Its a very similar, hymnal type message. But it has a clear "even if our oppressors beat us down into the dust, even if we are defeated, our dust will rise back up, and clog their nostrils and they will never be free of the memory of us irritating their noses and making their eyes water" type.. of thing.

turns up.

Remembering or explaining more of the words made my google-fu finally kick in, it may have had to do with Frederick Douglass.

edit: nope still not it. dang