James Weldon Johnson Quotes about Country

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This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.

This country can have no more democracy than it accords and guarantees to the humblest and weakest citizen.

Country, Justice, Diversity

James Weldon Johnson (2004). “Writings”

The colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them.

James Weldon Johnson

Country, White, People

James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.10, Courier Corporation

A great wave of humiliation and shame swept over me. Shame that I belonged to a race that could be so dealt with; and shame for my country, that it, the great example of democracy to the world, should be the only civilized, if not the only state on earth, where a human being would be burned alive.

James Weldon Johnson

Country, Race, Lynching

James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.352, Oxford University Press on Demand

James Weldon Johnson Quotes about Country

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