Friday, October 12, 2012

Form............................

"The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal."
-Aristotle

"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

"THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General."
-Kurt Vonnegut, opening paragraph of his short story, Harrison Bergeron

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