Suzanne La Follette Quotes

Civil rights are meaningless without economic rights.

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

We need radical, transformative solutions to address the inequality that is blighting millions of people's lives.

I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.

Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings.

real freedom is not a matter of the shifting of advantage from one sex to the other or from one class to another. Real freedom means the disappearance of advantage, and primarily of economic advantage.

If freedom is to be saved and enlarged, poverty must be ended. There is no other solution.

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.

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

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

Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.

Freedom is not enough.

Without economic security, liberty is not worth having.

It is right to be forward in the defense of the poor; no system that is not just as between rich and poor can hope to survive.

I don't care if you're Christian, you're Muslim, you're gay, you're straight - I am here to fight for your equality. Because I believe that we are all born equal, but we are not treated equally, and that is why we must fight.

The importance of tackling inequality in Africa cannot be overstated.

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

Whoever claims the right to redistribute the wealth produced by others is claiming the right to treat human beings as chattel.

Well, we in America are about to break up with oil. Why not break up with poverty and discrimination too?

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.

Equality begins with economic empowerment.

We live in the richest country in the world. There's plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want. And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle - the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start? There are corporations worth billions of dollars - and hundreds of thousands of people who don't get to eat.

Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.

Pity would be no more, If we did not make somebody poor. Mercy no more could be, If all were happy as we.

But let me offer you my definition of social justice: I keep what I earn and you keep what you earn. Do you disagree? Well then tell me how much of what I earn belongs to you - and why?