Re: QUOTES


SilkUpholsteredChair wrote:
> mcisr...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > don freeman wrote:
> > > > It's the use of things in 'common' to dismiss the idea of 'equality'
> > > > that makes no sense to me.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Here's an equality quote from Bob that's always bugged me:
> > >
> > > A self-ordained professor's tongue
> > > Too serious to fool
> > > Spouted out that liberty
> > > Is just equality in school
> > > "Equality," I spoke the word
> > > As if a wedding vow.
> > > Ah, but I was so much older then
> > > I'm younger than that now
> > >
> > >
>
>
> > > It seems to me that Dylan is denigrating the concept of equality here.
> >
>
>
> > I have a similar reaction to it, but it also seems like he might be
> > simply questioning a dogmatic approach to the concept, which is why the
> > 'wedding vow' concept is used. The 'self ordained' professor seems to
> > be saying that liberty would happen if everyone is given the same
> > education, which I tend to disagree with. Interestingly, there was a
> > news story last night about French Arabs and North Africans.
> > Apparently there was a study done that showed that while 4 percent of
> > the European French who graduated from the French school system were
> > unemployed, 25 percent of the Arab and African French were unemployed.
> > I think Dylans on to something here. There's much more to really
> > creating a free democracy than education - although it certainly
> > shouldn't be discounted as part of the process.
>
>
> Right. All Dylan means is that equality and liberty aren't synonymous,
> though people often confuse them. Not an original thought. One of de
> Toqueville's big criticisms of Americans.

The equal school issue is also a major theme in Jeffersons writings and
one of the main civil rights issues. Integration in the schools had
been happening at that time, so this also reflects his rebellion
against being made into a "spokesperson" for the Civil Rights movement.

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