Let America Be America Again Year It Was Developed
Let America Be America Again
past Langston Hughes
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Let America exist America again. Let information technology be the dream it used to be. Let it be the pioneer on the plain Seeking a home where he himself is gratis. (America never was America to me.) Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed-- Let information technology be that great strong land of dearest Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That any man be crushed by 1 above. (Information technology never was America to me.) O, allow my land be a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is gratuitous, Equality is in the air we breathe. (There'southward never been equality for me, Nor freedom in this "homeland of the gratis.") Say, who are you lot that mumbles in the night? And who are you that draws your veil beyond the stars? I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro begetting slavery's scars. I am the blood-red man driven from the state, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek-- And finding merely the aforementioned old stupid programme Of dog eat domestic dog, of mighty crush the weak. I am the fellow, full of strength and promise, Tangled in that ancient endless chain Of profit, power, gain, of catch the land! Of grab the gold! Of grab the means of satisfying demand! Of work the men! Of take the pay! Of owning everything for one's ain greed! I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil. I am the worker sold to the machine. I am the Negro, servant to y'all all. I am the people, humble, hungry, hateful-- Hungry notwithstanding today despite the dream. Beaten however today--O, Pioneers! I am the homo who never got ahead, The poorest worker bartered through the years. Notwithstanding I'grand the one who dreamt our basic dream In the Old World while nevertheless a serf of kings, Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, and so truthful, That fifty-fifty all the same its mighty daring sings In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned That'due south made America the country it has become. O, I'grand the man who sailed those early seas In search of what I meant to be my domicile-- For I'm the one who left dark Ireland'south shore, And Poland'due south plain, and England'due south grassy lea, And torn from Black Africa's strand I came To build a "homeland of the free." The free? Who said the gratuitous? Non me? Surely not me? The millions on relief today? The millions shot downward when we strike? The millions who have nada for our pay? For all the dreams nosotros've dreamed And all the songs we've sung And all the hopes we've held And all the flags we've hung, The millions who have cipher for our pay-- Except the dream that's about expressionless today. O, let America be America once again-- The land that never has been all the same-- And yet must be--the land where every human is gratuitous. The land that's mine--the poor human being's, Indian'due south, Negro's, ME-- Who made America, Whose sweat and blood, whose religion and pain, Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain, Must bring back our mighty dream once again. Sure, call me whatsoever ugly proper noun y'all cull-- The steel of freedom does not stain. From those who alive like leeches on the people'due south lives, We must take back our country again, America! O, yep, I say it plainly, America never was America to me, And nonetheless I swear this adjuration-- America will be! Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster expiry, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, We, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plainly-- All, all the stretch of these groovy light-green states-- And make America over again!
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