“For Hegel, by contrast, liberal society is a reciprocal and equal agreement among citizens to mutually recognize each other”

“In the true married relationship, the independence of husband and wife will be equal, their dependence mutual, and their obligations reciprocal.”

“With reciprocity all things do not need to be equal in order for acceptance and mutuality to thrive. If equality is evoked as the only standard by which it is deemed acceptable for people to meet across boundaries and create community, then there is little hope. Fortunately, mutuality is a more constructive and positive foundation for the building of ties that allow for differences in status, position, power, and privilege whether determined by race, class, sexuality, religion, or nationality.”

“Mutually counting on each other, watching each other's backs, forcing each other to be brave.”

“If there is no friendship with them [the poor] and no sharing of the life of the poor, then there is no authentic commitment to liberation, because love exists only among equals.”

“In democratic society each citizen is habitually busy with the contemplation of a very petty object, which is himself.”