Quotes on Economic 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.

Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes.

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.

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.

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.

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

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.

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.