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

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Humor
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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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I believe that as women, we must commit ourselves to sustaining the progress made by our foremothers who fought so hard for womens equality and liberation. – Carre Otis

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Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart. – Honore de Balzac

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Civilization is built on a number of ultimate principles… respect for human life, the punishment of crimes against property and persons, the equality of all good citizens before the law… or, in a word justice. – Max Nordau

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How are men to be secured in any rights without instruction how to be secured in the equal exercise of those rights without equality of instruction? By instruction understand me to mean knowledge – just knowledge not talent, not genius, not inventive mental powers. – Frances Wright

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