Great Masses Quotes
Two meanings of masses, from politics to music
This collection brings together two very different meanings of masses, the ordinary people invoked in speeches about patience, freedom, and political resolve, and the choral works performed in classical music. Read together, the quotes show how the same word can carry weight in both a nation's history and its concert halls. For more on historical rhetoric, see our Mid Life quotes.
We ask the great masses of India to be patient a short time longer, while the cause of freedom is being fought out, not because we want to delay, but because the hard facts of war make a complete change...
It can not be done; it shall not be done! I speak for the great masses of the Mississippi Valley, and those west of it, when I say you shall not do it!
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