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...reminds us that he is a second class citizen but this time he regards himself as an American citizen. America! Land created in common, Dream nourished in...Keep your hand on the plow! Hold on! If the house is nut yet finished, Don 't be discouraged, builder! If the fight is not yet won, Don 't be weary, soldier!...

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...Race Problem" showed more of the hope and optimism of his long poem, "Freedom's Plow." Its message, "America / Land created in common / Dream nourished...in common / Keep your hand on the plow! / Hold on!" was the message Hughes tried to hold on to for the next two decades — with great difficulty. Already...

...America is a dream. The poet says it was promises. The people say it is promises— thai will come true America! Land created in common, Dream nourished in common. Keep your hand on the plow! Hold on! With the war's end in 1945, the poet joined in black America's fight to gain freedom from segregation...

...Notes 1 79 Index 233 THE VIRTUES OF LIBERALISM ONE INTRODUCTION Rethinking America's Liberal Tradition America! Land created in common, Dream nourished in...yet finished. Don't be discouraged, builder! If the fighi is not yet won. Don't be weary, soldier! The plan and the pattern is here. Woven from the beginning...

...Land created in common, Dream nourished in common, Keep you hand on the plow! Hold on! If the house not yet finished, Don't be discouraged, builder! If...weary, soldier! The plan and the pattern is here. • — Langston Hughes, in Kinfe Abraham, Politics of Black Nationalism The National Negro Congress...