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Langston Hughes Quotes about Democracy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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