Let American Be America Again Langston Hughes
Allow America Exist America Once again
by Langston Hughes
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Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to exist. Let it be the pioneer on the manifestly Seeking a dwelling house where he himself is free. (America never was America to me.) Permit America exist the dream the dreamers dreamed-- Permit it be that swell strong country of love Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme That whatsoever man exist crushed by one above. (It never was America to me.) O, let my country exist a land where Liberty Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breathe. (There's never been equality for me, Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.") Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark? And who are you that draws your veil across the stars? I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro begetting slavery's scars. I am the red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek-- And finding merely the same old stupid plan Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak. I am the young human, full of strength and hope, Tangled in that aboriginal endless chain Of profit, power, gain, of catch the land! Of take hold of the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need! Of work the men! Of take the pay! Of owning everything for one'southward ain greed! I am the farmer, bondservant to the soil. I am the worker sold to the machine. I am the Negro, servant to you all. I am the people, apprehensive, hungry, mean-- Hungry notwithstanding today despite the dream. Beaten even so today--O, Pioneers! I am the man who never got ahead, The poorest worker bartered through the years. Yet I'k the one who dreamt our basic dream In the Old World while still a serf of kings, Who dreamt a dream and then strong, so brave, and then true, That even yet its mighty daring sings In every brick and rock, in every furrow turned That's fabricated America the country it has become. O, I'yard the man who sailed those early on seas In search of what I meant to be my home-- For I'm the one who left dark Ireland's shore, And Poland'due south apparently, and England's grassy lea, And torn from Black Africa'southward strand I came To build a "homeland of the free." The free? Who said the free? Not me? Surely not me? The millions on relief today? The millions shot down when we strike? The millions who have nothing 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 nothing for our pay-- Except the dream that's almost expressionless today. O, let America exist America over again-- The land that never has been yet-- And yet must be--the land where every human being is free. The state that's mine--the poor man's, Indian'south, Negro'due south, ME-- Who made America, Whose sweat and blood, whose organized religion and pain, Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain, Must bring dorsum our mighty dream again. Sure, call me whatsoever ugly name you cull-- The steel of liberty does not stain. From those who live like leeches on the people's lives, Nosotros must accept back our country again, America! O, yes, I say it obviously, America never was America to me, And notwithstanding I swear this oath-- America volition be! Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death, The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies, Nosotros, the people, must redeem The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers. The mountains and the endless plain-- All, all the stretch of these great green states-- And brand America over again!
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