When I got to college, the fake ID thing wasn't that important, since pretty much everyone could get away with drinking in New Orleans. But the drugs, well, that was a different story altogether, because drugs are every bit as illegal in New Orleans as anywhere else--at least, if you're black and poor, and have the misfortune of doing your drugs somewhere other than the dorms at Tulane University. But if you are lucky enough to be living at Tulane, which is a pretty white place, especially contrasted with the city where it's located, which is 65 percent black, then you are absolutely set.
Tim WiseTag: college drugs drinking class privilege new-orleans tulane rave
The rich think this land is theirs though they have never earned the right to call it theirs.
Maaza MengisteThe search for Nirvana, like the search for Utopia or the end of history or the classless society, is ultimately a futile and dangerous one. It involves, if it does not necessitate, the sleep of reason. There is no escape from anxiety and struggle.
Christopher HitchensTag: reason society class struggle nirvana anxiety irrationality utopia
All men are born free: just not for long.
John le CarréTag: equality class education-system
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Treat each other like human beings? But the other great apes have no class hierarchy.
BauvardTag: humor humanity funny class
A class system is something you use to discriminate against someone who looks like you.
Reginald D. HunterTag: class discriminate
When I look at a person, I see a person - not a rank, not a class, not a title.
Criss JamiTag: equality class respect status discernment bias stereotype person human-being righteous title disrespect rank geniune
Whether life finds us guilty or not guilty, we ourselves know we are not innocent.
Sándor MáraiA true gentleman is one that apologizes anyways, even though he has not offended a lady intentionally. He is in a class all of his own because he knows the value of a woman's heart.
Shannon L. AlderTag: love compassion men manners relationships class respect honor betrayal ladies courtesy gentleman cheating break-ups leading-a-woman-on manning-up mixed-signals players respecting-others respecting-women true-gentlemen
The pleasures of love are really quite wonderful--though I suspect they are rather a luxury and require a certain level of socioeconomic stability to be anything other than a mode of suffering.
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