Langston Hughes Quotes About Justice

Quotes about: Justice

• That Justice is a blind goddess
  Is a thing to which we black are wise:
  Her bandage hides two festering sores
  That once perhaps were eyes.

  Langston Hughes

  Wise, Eye, Two

  Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.160, University of Missouri Press

• 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

• We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too. The tom-tom cries and the tom-tom laughs. If colored people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter either. We build our temples for tomorrow, strong as we know how, and we stand on top of the mountain, free within ourselves.

  Langston Hughes

  Beautiful, Strong, Dark

  Langston Hughes (2002). “The Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Essays on art, race, politics, and world affairs”, p.36, University of Missouri Press

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