Langston Hughes Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.

  Langston Hughes

  Mean, Racism, Political

  "The Black Man Speaks" l. 1 (1943)

• There is no color line in death. I swear to the lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me. O, yes, I say it plain, America never was America to me, And yet I swear this oath - America will be! I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.

  Langston Hughes

  Mean, Rocks, Color

• LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.

  Langston Hughes

  Liars, Democracy, Liberty

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.221, University of Missouri Press

• I will not take 'but' for an answer. Negroes have been looking at democracy's 'but' too long.

  Langston Hughes

  Long, Black History, Democracy

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Early Simple Stories”, University of Missouri

• Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear.

  Langston Hughes

  Years, Democracy, Today

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: The poems, 1941-1950”, p.77, University of Missouri Press

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