George H. W. Bush Quotes

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

Equality begins with economic empowerment.

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

We are privileged. There are poor people out there. We must to do something to make them privileged.

We know we cannot achieve our twin goals of ending poverty and boosting shared prosperity without ending poverty and creating equality for women and girls.

We do not postpone the participation of the lower classes of our people in the profits of economic enterprise, and in other countries, they do postpone it. In the long run, I think our policy is better, and we stand by it.

The social justice movement of the 21st century is economic development.

There's enough wealth in the world that no one should go without.

I think people are very focused on the economic issues. They want an economy that works for everybody.

Until economic freedom is attained for everybody, there can be no real freedom for anybody.

So as a nation, we have a right to be very proud of the successes that we have seen because of the struggle of millions of people to create a less discriminatory society. That is something we should be proud of, but there is one struggle in which not only have we not succeeded but in which we are losing ground and that is the fundamental struggle for economic justice.

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.

The measure of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much, but whether, as Franklin Roosevelt said, we provide enough for those who have too little.

My vision for the future? Two things: to make credit a human right so that each individual human being will have the opportunity to take loans and implement his or her ideas so that self-exploration becomes possible. And second: that it will lead to a world where nobody has to suffer from poverty - a world completely free from poverty.

Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no lying.

To me, feminism is such a simple description: it's equal rights, economic rights, political rights, and social rights.

The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.

India is known for much development that has happened since our independence, but at the same time, we have also failed on many levels. It is the responsibility of the future generation to ensure that all these failures are corrected and help create a civilised society with equal opportunities for one and all.

And my approach has always been to stand up and speak out on behalf of the economic rights of people.

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

Women in my world are respected as much as men.

The pure connecting factor is that those of us who describe ourselves as feminists want equal rights for all people.

A strong economy is perfectly consistent with concern for equity and economic justice.

Money is the great leveler.

Unless you’re at the very top, you need a more equitable economy.