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  • I personally think that people should get the book because it is like a blueprint. It shows you the work that needs to be done if we're ever going to get economic equality, health, reproductive health, violence. I mean, it's every category.

    Book   Mean   Thinking  
    Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.
  • I don't believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity.

    Stress   Believe   Envy  
    "Boris Johnson says 'greed is good' in speech to honour Margaret Thatcher". www.scmp.com. November 28, 2013.
  • Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

    Lying   Equality   Hype  
    "The Red Association" by Mikhail Bakunin, www.marxists.org. 1870.
  • If a single man demanded as much as a man with a wife and four children, then that would be a violation of the concept of economic equality.

    Children   Men   Equality  
  • The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad soil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds - where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough - a modest living- and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities.

    Beautiful   Country   Men  
  • How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? This is a case of exclusion.

    Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.21, BookBaby
  • Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.

    Sex   Believe   Feminist  
    "We should all be feminists". TED Talk, www.ted.com. December, 2012.
  • The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need."

    Real   Equality   Needs  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1993). “Gandhi on Nehru”
  • Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.

    "The Joy of the Gospel: Evangelii Gaudium". Book by Pope Francis, w2.vatican.va. November 26, 2013.
  • The prerequisite for more economic equality in the world is industrialization. And this is possible only through increased capital investment, increased capital accumulation.

    Ludwig Von Mises (2006). “Economic Policy: Thoughts for Today and Tomorrow”, p.86, Ludwig von Mises Institute
  • I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women.

    Source: bigthink.com
  • In a world of complete economic equality, you get and keep the affections you deserve. You can't buy love with gifts or favors, you can't hold love by raising an inadequate child, and you can't be secure in love by serving as a good scrub woman or a good provider.

    B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.137, Hackett Publishing
  • We're more concerned about climate or economic equality or racial justice or anything else that is good for people and the planet, we simply must also spend some time wresting back our money-marinated democracy. This will require getting money out of politics and then getting people back in.

  • In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved.

    Source: sangam.org
  • There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.

  • The first step in providing economic equality for women is to ensure a stable economy in which every person who wants to work can work.

    Work   Equality   Want  
  • Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount.

    Mean   Equality   Doe  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.273, Rajpal & Sons
  • A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

    "Law, Legislation and Liberty" by Friedrich August von Hayek, Vol. 2 : The Mirage of Social Justice, (Ch. 9), 1976.
  • [M]any females would, even assuming complete economic equality between the sexes, prefer residing with males or peddling their asses on the street, thereby having most of their time for themselves, to spending many hours of their days doing boring, stultifying, non-creative work for somebody else, functioning as less than animals, as machines, or, at best - if able to get a "good" job - co-managing the shitpile. What will liberate women, therefore, from male control is the total elimination of the money-work system, not the attainment of economic equality with men within it.

    Jobs   Sex   Animal  
    Manifesto by Valerie Solanas, 1967.
  • Northeastern and most coastal states will vote for the candidate who is more closely aligned with international cooperation and engagement, secularism and science, gun control, individual freedom in culture and sexuality, and a greater role for the government in protecting the environment and ensuring economic equality.

  • We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

    Wisdom   Country   Power  
  • Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence.

    Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.126, A&C Black
  • Running is perhaps the most fundamental of all sports, and it is economically the least costly to perform. As a consequence, it is the most democratic and most competitive of all sports because individual merit can prevail despite economic equality. It is a sport for everyone, the whole world over.

  • The fight for education and justice is inseparable from the struggle for economic equality, human dignity and security, and the challenge of developing American institutions along genuinely democratic lines.

    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • I believe profoundly in the possibilities of democracy, but democracy needs to be emancipated from capitalism. As long as we inhabit a capitalist democracy, a future of racial equality, gender equality, economic equality will elude us.

    Believe   Elude Us   Long  
  • The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

    Second Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1937
  • One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge economic benefits.

    "UN Women Head Michelle Bachelet: ‘Gender Equality Is Good Business’". Interview with Elisabeth Braw, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.
  • The boundaries of democracy have to be widened so as to include economic equality also. This is the great revolution through which we are all passing.

  • Since ancient times, the left side has stood for the side of the unconscious or the unknown; the right side, by contrast, has represented the side of consciousness or wakefulness. Through the late twentieth century, the movement of the Left limited themselves to a materialist understanding of reality- exemplified by Marxism- demanding social justice and economic equality but not the restoration of intuition and the recognition of the hidden, qualitative dimensions of being suppressed by the mental-rational consciousness, narrowly focused on the quantifiable.

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