Democracy Quote by Karen Joy Fowler

“Without courage, our generation is doomed to another decade of political disenfranchisement and shit music.”

— Laurie Penny

“Music on the radio is a shared fever dream, a collective hallucination, a secret amongst millions and a whisper in the whole country’s ear.”

— Bruce Springsteen

“For all my concerns, though, watching the Women’s March, I couldn’t help but be swept up in the joy of the moment and feel…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“...sometimes offering a quality daily opinion about what’s going on in American politics feels like trying to compose a beautiful symphony using only the…

— Caitlin Johnstone

“The next thing I knew, the season of politics was over. Like a drooping flag on a windless day, the gigantic shock waves that…

— Haruki Murakami

“This time, the record company had asked for, “catchy, fun, bubbly, with a hint of rock ‘n’ roll.” So of course my inner rebel…

— L.J. Shen

“the awesome size of Boomer voting power and the generation’s demonstrable interest in using that power to promote its own agenda at everyone else’s…

— Bruce Cannon Gibney

Were a full generation apart, Governor Romney and I. And, in some ways, were a little different. There are the songs on his iPod,…

— Paul Ryan

“Writing this now, God, how I miss the cultural side of the eighties - the rhetoric, the raggedy clothes, the politics, gigs you were…

— Stewart Lee

“Politics takes place in the real world with real people, not in the dusty pages of an Ayn Rand novel.”

— Laura Ingraham

“The writing that so thrills and exhilarates you, as if you were dancing right next to the band, is barely audible to anyone else.”

— Annie Dillard

“These months drive us to listen within.”

— Charol Messenger