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Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying. -- Mikhail Bakunin
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. -- Steven Pinker
The real meaning of economic equality is "To each according to his need." -- Mahatma Gandhi
Feminist: A person who believes in the social, political and economic equality of the sexes. -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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
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. -- Jimmy Carter
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. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
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. -- Mahatma Gandhi
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. -- Angela Davis
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
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. -- Bernd Heinrich
I always go with the dictionary definition of feminism, which is just social, political and economic equality for women. -- Jessica Valenti
In all societies that have applied a form of socialism, a certain degree of social economic equality has been achieved. -- Indira Gandhi
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. -- Henry Giroux
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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. -- Eleanor Smeal
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. -- Annie Leonard
Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence. -- Mahatma Gandhi
Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount. -- Mahatma Gandhi
The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies. -- Michelle Bachelet
Take your message of equality of achievement, take your message of economic dependency, take your message of enslaving the entrepreneurial will and spirit of the American people somewhere else. -- Allen West
Western democracies exalt the ideal of social equality, but our economic system arguably emerged from 16th-century Calvinism, a religion whose members believed that God showed favor by bestowing wealth and other forms of success on what they called 'the chosen.' -- Martha Beck
The American economic, political, and social organization has given to its citizens the benefits of material prosperity, political liberty, and a wholesome natural equality; and this achievement is a gain, not only to Americans, but to the world and to civilization. -- Herbert Croly
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. -- Michelle Bachelet
I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value. -- Paul Dirac
Countries with higher levels of gender equality have higher economic growth. Companies with more women on their boards have higher returns. Peace agreements that include women are more successful. Parliaments with more women take up a wider range of issues - including health, education, anti-discrimination, and child support. -- Ban Ki-moon
Propelled by freedom of faith, gender equality and economic justice for all, India will become a modern nation. Minor blemishes cannot cloak the fact that India is becoming such a modern nation: no faith is in danger in our country, and the continuing commitment to gender equality is one of the great narratives of our times. -- Pranab Mukherjee
Equality begins with economic empowerment. -- George H. W. Bush
Women must have economic and social equality with men. -- Margaret Sanger
One needs either equality or political and economic superiority. -- Andrea Dworkin
[Woman's] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality. -- Emma Goldman
If socialism means that we live well, that there is equality and justice, and that we have no social and economic problems, then I welcome it. -- Evo Morales

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