Langston Hughes Quotes about Democracy

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