Quote by Lionel Trilling
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

Other quotes by Lionel Trilling

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. – Lionel Trilling

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Imagination
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Every neurosis is a primitive form of legal proceeding in which the accused carries on the prosecution, imposes judgment and executes the sentence: all to the end that someone else should not perform the same process. – Lionel Trilling

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legal
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Equal pay isnt just a womens issue when women get equal pay, their family incomes rise and the whole family benefits. – Mike Honda

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The longer we live, the more we find we are like other persons. – Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Equal distribution of wealth does not mean we all should be millionaires — it only means no one should die of hunger. – Dodinsky, www.dodinsky.com

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Our society needs to recognize the unstoppable momentum toward unequivocal civil equality for every gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered citizen of this country. – Zachary Quinto

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