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“I swear to the Lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me.”

— Langston Hughes

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Source

Title
Wikiquote: Langston Hughes
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Context

"The Black Man Speaks," from Jim Crow's Last Stand (1943)

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Hughes, Langston. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Langston Hughes. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Langston_Hughes

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