the same old stupid plan

'I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery's 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.'

'Langston Hughes, Let America Be America Again. From The Great Quotations, compiled by George Seldes, 1960.