Economic equality

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The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad foil 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 of the simple body and the simple soul.

Walt Whitman

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Topic

Economic equality National greatness

Speaker

Walt Whitman

Language

English

Time

1888 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Traubel, Horace. With Walt Whitman in Camden. Vol. 2, Mitchell Kennerley, 1915. Originally stated in a conversation with Walt Whitman, 3 Aug. 1888.

What I mean by Socialism is a condition of society in which there should be neither rich nor poor, neither master nor master's man, neither idle nor overworked, neither brain-sick brain workers nor heart-sick hand workers, in a word, in which all men would be living in equality of condition, and would manage their affairs unwastefully, and with the full consciousness that harm to one would mean harm to all-the realization at last of the meaning of the word commonwealth.

William Morris

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Topic

Socialism Economic equality Equality

Author

William Morris

Source

How I Became a Socialist

Genre

Political literature

Language

English

Time

1894 1890s 19th century

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Original Citation

Morris, William. "How I Became a Socialist." Justice, 16 June 1894.

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Morris, William. How I Became a Socialist, edited by Owen Hatherley. Verso, 2020.