"That Justice is a blind goddessIs a..." - Quote by Langston Hughes
That Justice is a blind goddessIs a thing to which we black are wise:Her bandage hides two festering soresThat once perhaps were eyes.
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“Let America be America again. Let it be the dream it used to be.”
“I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.”
“I must never write when I do not want to write.”
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“Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves.”
“What freedom am I being offered while the organization of the people remains banned? Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.”
“Righteousness, or justice, is, undoubtedly of all the virtues, the surest foundation on which to create and establish a new state. But there are two nobler virtues, industry and frugality, which tend more to increase the wealth, power and grandeur of the community, than all the others without them.”
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“In my opinion, the unjust man whose tongue is full of glozing rhetoric, merits the heaviest punishment; vaunting that he can with his tongue gloze over injustice, he dares to act wickedly, yet he is not over-wise.”
“I am struck here by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions.”
“You're living at a time of extremism, a time of revolutionA time where there's got to be a change. People in power have misused itAnd now there has to be a change and a better world has to be builtAnd the only way is going to be built is with extreme methodsAnd I for one will join with anyone, don't care what color you areAs long as you want change this miserable condition that exists on this earth”