In the poems “I Dream a World” and “Democracy,” the author, Langston Hughes,

Both poems challenge racial inequality and the exclusion of Black Americans from freedom and opportunity. In “I Dream a World,” Hughes imagines people living without prejudice; in “Democracy,” he insists that freedom cannot be postponed. Choice A fits “Democracy” especially well, but choice B captures the concern shared by both poems.

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