--Craving For Freedoms--

When a man starts out with nothing,

When a man starts out with his hands

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Started Empty, but clean,

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When a man starts to build a world,

He starts first with himself

And the faith that is in his heart-

The strength there,

The will there to build.

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First in the heart is the dream-

Then the mind starts seeking a way.

His eyes look out on the world,

On the great wooded world,

On the rich soil of the world,

On the rivers of the world.

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The eyes see there materials for building,

See the difficulties, too, and the obstacles.

The mind seeks a way to overcome these obstacles.

The hand seeks tools to cut the wood,

To till the soil, and harness the power of the waters.

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Then the hand seeks other hands to help,

A community of hands to help-

Thus the dream becomes not one man’s dream alone,

But a community dream.

Not my dream alone, but our dream.

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Not my world alone,

But your world and my world,

Belonging to all the hands who build.....

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~~By Langston Hughes (1902 - 1967) ~~

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~http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/freedom-s-plow/