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Poem by Langston Hughes


Justice


That Justice is a blind goddess
Is a thing to which we black are wise:
Her bandage hides two festering sores
That once perhaps were eyes.



Langston Hughes


Langston Hughes's other poems:
  1. Sea Calm
  2. My People
  3. Children's Rhymes
  4. Song for a Dark Girl
  5. Personal


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • Rudyard Kipling Justice ("Across a world where all men grieve") October 1918
  • Ella Wilcox Justice ("However inexplicable may seem")

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