Quotes · Skopia

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Place·Kansas✕clear

I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen" Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed— I, too, am America.

Langston Hughes

I, Too · 1926

★ 7.0

Speech · Political speech

Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

First Inaugural Address of Dwight D. Eisenhower · 1953

★ 7.0

What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore - And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over - like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode?

Langston Hughes

Harlem · 1951

★ 6.9

Speech · Presidential farewell address · Political speech

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience... We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

1961

★ 6.9

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

Langston Hughes

The Black Man Speaks · 1943

★ 6.2

O, let America be America again— The land that never has been yet— And yet must be—the land where every man is free.

Langston Hughes

1936

★ 5.5

I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

Langston Hughes

1921

★ 5.3

Hold fast to dreams For if dreams die Life is a broken-winged bird That cannot fly. Hold fast to dreams For when dreams go Life is a barren field Frozen with snow.

Langston Hughes

Dreams · 1923

★ 5.3

Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep.

Immortality · 1934

★ 4.5

I doubt whether any of these people, with their academic or dogmatic hatred of war, detest it as much as I do. They probably have not seen the bodies rotting on the ground and smelled the stench of decaying human flesh...What separates me from the pacifists is that I hate the Nazis more than I hate war.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

1943

★ 4.4

I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.

Langston Hughes

1926

★ 3.7

Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace, The soul that knows it not, knows no release From little things.

1928

★ 3.7

In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

1962

★ 3.7

Poem · Magazine

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

Langston Hughes

The Negro Speaks of Rivers · 1921

★ 3.6

Speech · Political speech

Every gun that is made, ever warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

1953

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

You have broader considerations that might follow what you would call the "falling domino" principle. You have a row of dominoes set up, you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is the certainty that it will go over very quickly. So you could have a beginning of a disintegration that would have the most profound influences.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

1954

★ 3.5

Speech · Political speech

Plans are worthless, but planning is everything.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

1957

★ 2.9

Autobiography and memoir

For poems are like rainbows: they escape you quickly.

Langston Hughes

1940

★ 2.2

Speech · Political speech

Freedom is pitted against slavery; lightness against the dark.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

First Inaugural Address of Dwight D. Eisenhower · 1953

★ 2.1

Life is for the living. Death is for the dead. Let life be like music. And death a note unsaid.

Langston Hughes

1936

★ 2.0

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