Justice in  General   

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.

By Langston Hughes

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Other poems by Langston Hughes:

• Ardella
• Daybreak In Alabama
• Dream Deferred
• Dream Variations
• Fire-Caught
• Freedoms Plow
• I, Too, Sing America
• Juke Box Love Song
• Justice
• Madam And Her Madam
• Merry-Go-Round
• Minstrel Man
• Mother to Son
• Night Funeral In Harlem
• Problems
• Quiet Girl
• Still Here
• The Blues
• The Negro Mother
• The Negro Speaks Of Rivers
• The Weary Blues
• Walkers With The Dawn