<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><h1 class="TITLE" style="font-size: medium; font-family: verdana, arial, 'lucida sans', helvetica, geneva, sans-serif; color: rgb(204, 102, 0); background-color: rgb(249, 249, 249);">Let America Be America Again</h1></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">By Langston Hughes</span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Let America be America again.<br>Let it be the dream it used to be.<br>Let it be the pioneer on the plain<br>Seeking a home where he himself is free.<br><br>Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed--<br>Let it be that great strong land of love<br>Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme<br>That any man be crushed by one above.<br><br>O, let my land be a land where Liberty<br>Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,<br>But opportunity is real, and life is free,<br>Equality is in the air we breathe.<br><br>Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark? <br>And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?<br><br>I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,<br>I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.<br>I am the red man driven from the land,<br>I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek--<br>And finding only the same old stupid plan<br>Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.<br><br>I am the young man, full of strength and hope,<br>Tangled in that ancient endless chain<br>Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!<br>Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!<br>Of work the men! Of take the pay!<br>Of owning everything for one's own greed!<br><br>I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil.<br>I am the worker sold to the machine.<br>I am the Negro, servant to you all.<br>I am the people, humble, hungry, mean--<br>Hungry yet today despite the dream.<br>Beaten yet today--O, Pioneers!<br>I am the man who never got ahead,<br>The poorest worker bartered through the years.<br><br>Yet I'm the one who dreamt our basic dream<br>In the Old World while still a serf of kings,<br>Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true,<br>That even yet its mighty daring sings<br>In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned<br>That's made America the land it has become.<br>O, I'm the man who sailed those early seas<br>In search of what I meant to be my home--<br>For I'm the one who left dark Ireland's shore,<br>And Poland's plain, and England's grassy lea,<br>And torn from Black Africa's strand I came<br>To build a "homeland of the free."<br><br>The free?<br><br>Who said the free? Not me?<br>Surely not me? The millions on relief today?<br>The millions shot down when we strike?<br>The millions who have nothing for our pay?<br>For all the dreams we've dreamed<br>And all the songs we've sung<br>And all the hopes we've held<br>And all the flags we've hung,<br>The millions who have nothing for our pay--<br>Except the dream that's almost dead today.<br><br>O, let America be America again--<br>The land that never has been yet--<br>And yet must be--the land where every man is free.<br>The land that's mine--the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME--<br>Who made America,<br>Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,<br>Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,<br>Must bring back our mighty dream again.<br><br>Sure, call me any ugly name you choose--<br>The steel of freedom does not stain.<br>From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,<br>We must take back our land again,<br>America!<br><br>O, yes,<br>I say it plain,<br>America never was America to me,<br>And yet I swear this oath--<br>America will be!<br><br>Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,<br>The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,<br>We, the people, must redeem<br>The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.<br>The mountains and the endless plain--<br>All, all the stretch of these great green states--<br>And make America again! </span></div><div><br></div><div>---------------------------------<br><br><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div><br></div><div>"<span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">There's room at the top they are telling you still</span><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill </span><br style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); "><span style="font-size: medium; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); ">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);"><br></span></font></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.292969); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469);">- John Lennon<br></span></font><div> </div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div></div></div></body></html>