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:largeCaliforniaPeggy
(149,627 posts)Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)Because you know . . . . girls.
This cover is AWESOME. Looks like I'll be buying Rolling Stone for the first time in a few years.
watoos
(7,142 posts)Perfect unsaid hope for America.
Make America America Again.
Fortinbras Armstrong
(4,473 posts)Let America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.
(America never was America to me.)
Let America be the dream the dreamers dreamed
Let it be that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.
(It never was America to me.)
O, let my land be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.
(Theres never been equality for me,
Nor freedom in this homeland of the free.)
Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark?
And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?
I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slaverys scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.
I am the young man, full of strength and hope,
Tangled in that ancient endless chain
Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!
Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!
Of work the men! Of take the pay!
Of owning everything for ones own greed!
I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil.
I am the worker sold to the machine.
I am the Negro, servant to you all.
I am the people, humble, hungry, mean
Hungry yet today despite the dream.
Beaten yet todayO, Pioneers!
I am the man who never got ahead,
The poorest worker bartered through the years.
Yet Im the one who dreamt our basic dream
In the Old World while still a serf of kings,
Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true,
That even yet its mighty daring sings
In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned
Thats made America the land it has become.
O, Im the man who sailed those early seas
In search of what I meant to be my home
For Im the one who left dark Irelands shore,
And Polands plain, and Englands grassy lea,
And torn from Black Africas strand I came
To build a homeland of the free.
The free?
Who said the free? Not me?
Surely not me? The millions on relief today?
The millions shot down when we strike?
The millions who have nothing for our pay?
For all the dreams weve dreamed
And all the songs weve sung
And all the hopes weve held
And all the flags weve hung,
The millions who have nothing for our pay
Except the dream thats almost dead today.
O, let America be America again
The land that never has been yet
And yet must bethe land where every man is free.
The land thats minethe poor mans, Indians, Negros, ME
Who made America,
Whose sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.
Sure, call me any ugly name you choose
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the peoples lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!
O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath
America will be!
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft, and stealth, and lies,
We, the people, must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain
All, all the stretch of these great green states
And make America again!
From The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. Copyright © 1994 the E
BobsYourUncle
(120 posts)My education lacked a lot! Thanks for giving me this.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)onetexan
(13,041 posts)beautiful photo
spanone
(135,844 posts)geardaddy
(24,931 posts)It is so wonderful to see these excellent women taking control!
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)And allowed to handle government business?
Pelosi again looks great. She knows how to dress. Love that color. Who's the woman on the left?
DAMANgoldberg
(1,278 posts)National Schoolteacher of the year among other achievements...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jahana_Hayes
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)And a teacher, you say?
I cant wait to see her school some Republicans!
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)likes her. She is stunning.
Chellee
(2,097 posts)U.S. Representative for Connecticut's 5th congressional district.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)lordsummerisle
(4,651 posts)struggle4progress
(118,290 posts)LuvLoogie
(7,011 posts)OR
But, yes, it IS amazing. LOL
George II
(67,782 posts)...I'm glad that Hayes, who seems to get overlooked in groups like this, was included.
Otherwise, the idea behind it is good. Speaker Pelosi is FANTASTIC!
iluvtennis
(19,862 posts)pamela
(3,469 posts)Love it.
AnnieBW
(10,427 posts)On the cover of the Rolling Stone....
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,349 posts)Glamrock
(11,802 posts)Rock on ladies! Rock on!
burrowowl
(17,641 posts)FM123
(10,053 posts)RainCaster
(10,883 posts)Some great women instead.
ismnotwasm
(41,988 posts)I mean, damn.
proud patriot
(100,706 posts)Awesome
oasis
(49,389 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)One of the few things today giving us tired 'ole folks some relief from Repug hell.......
KEG......
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,002 posts)Some here and elsewhere tried to sharpen differences between Pelosi and the wings (caucuses) those women represent.
It seems to me that every move Pelosi has made has run counter to that narrative; Pelosi has united the Party and among the elected members it is running very efficiently.
In It to Win It
(8,253 posts)bdamomma
(63,868 posts)power than the power of women!!
Iggo
(47,558 posts)And her.
And her.
And her...
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)in2herbs
(2,945 posts)Make America Great Again. Women will do it.
stevesinpa
(143 posts)but four diverse women also. a young Latina, an older white woman, a black teacher and a Muslim woman. just beautiful cover. diversity is one of the necessities to making the United States great again
Hugin
(33,159 posts)FakeNoose
(32,641 posts)She encourages and mentors younger colleagues whenever she can.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)It takes my breath away just typing this!
FailureToCommunicate
(14,014 posts)Aristus
(66,381 posts)This is the reason seemingly every Republican who appears at Congressional hearings nowadays is throwing a screaming, flop-sweaty hissy fit over the least little things.
I could never respect anyone who lives in mortal terror that women might possess some political power...
littlemissmartypants
(22,691 posts)niyad
(113,329 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)Theres hope to be had with real, honest folks like these intelligent, strong, caring women.
Power 2 the People
(2,437 posts)Our future is very bright!!
ashling
(25,771 posts)Cha
(297,280 posts)All the Dems who Worked so Well Across our Nation!
jcgoldie
(11,631 posts)but where's Sharice?