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

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Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood. – Lionel Trilling

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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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I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood. – Martin Luther King, Jr.

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A formally recognized equality does, however, accord the smaller nations a position which they should be able to use increasingly in the interest of humanity as a whole and in the service of the ideal. – Hjalmar Branting

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Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else. – Allen West

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Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie and the workers want no lying. – Mikhail Bakunin

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