Vital Voices Democracy

Famous quotes containing the words vital, voices and/or democracy:

    “In the first place, all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class, by the affirming and advancing class, who utter what tens of thousands feel though they cannot say.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “Music, when soft voices die,
    Vibrates in the memory;
    Odours, when sweet violets sicken,
    Live within the sense they quicken.”
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)

    “I swear to the Lord
    I still can’t see
    Why Democracy means
    Everybody but me.”
    —Langston Hughes (1902–1967)