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We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equa

We who are liberal and progressive know that the poor are our equals in every sense except that of being equal to us. – Lionel Trilling

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We are at heart so profoundly anarchistic that the only form of state we can imagine living in is Utopian; and so cynical that the only Utopia we can believe in is authoritarian. – Lionel Trilling

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Paradise, Utopia
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Lionel Trilling
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Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony. – Lionel Trilling

Category:
Humor
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Lionel Trilling
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Equality
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I look into the faces of people struggling with their own lives, and I do not see strangers. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

Category:
Equality

We have to restore power to the family, to the neighborhood, and the community with a non-market principle, a principle of equality, of charity, of lets-take-care-of-one-another. Thats the creative challenge. – Jerry Brown

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Equality

Republicans many times cant get the words equality of opportunity out of their mouths. Their lips do not form that way. – Jack Kemp

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Equality

The sweltering summer of the Negros legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Equality

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Why is Cloud 9 so amazing? What is wrong with Cloud 8? That joke came off the top of my head, and the top of my head aint funny! – Mitch Hedberg

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amazing

My old teachers definition of poetry is an attempt to understand. – Thom Gunn

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When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens. – Anne Lamott

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Hope