Lionel Trilling Quote

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


'The Princess Casamassima' in The Liberal Imagination (1950)


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

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

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

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