Walt Whitman — "The older I grow the more I am confirmed in my optimism, my democracy—not of cou…"

The older I grow the more I am confirmed in my optimism, my democracy—not of course denying or excusing what is bad—but it is good, not bad, that is common. Beneath all the froth, illiteracy, worse, there is something latent—now and then to break forth—which cannot be defied, which saves us at last.
Walt Whitman — Walt Whitman Modern · Leaves of Grass

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'Democratic Vistas'

Date: 1871

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