Carolina Quotes
I believe in the perpetual regeneration of society, and in the immortality of democracy and in growth everlasting.
Walter Hines Page Carolinian
Source
"The Forgotten Man," address at the State Normal and Industrial School, Greensboro, North Carolina, 1897; quoted in Burton J. Hendrick, The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, vol. I (1922), ch. III
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- speech
- work
- The Forgotten Man
- year
- 1897
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To my mind there is greater promise in democracy than men of any preceding period ever dared dream of—aggressive democracy—growth by action.
The forgotten man remained forgotten. The aristocratic scheme of education had passed him by. To a less extent, but still to the extent of hundreds of thousands, the ecclesiastical scheme had passed him by.
A man ought to express himself, ought to live his own life, say his own little say, before silence comes.