Economic Independence Quotes

• At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.

  Booker T. Washington

  Education, Race, Independence

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• True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Jobs, Freedom, People

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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• Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems
  that political independence disappears without economic independence
  that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.

  Booker T. Washington

  Knowing, Leader, Political

  Booker T. Washington, Louis R. Harlan (1984). “The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1914-15”, p.396, University of Illinois Press

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• Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn

  H. L. Mencken

  Independence, Foundation, Economic

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men and women are created equal.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Inspiring, Women, 4th Of July

  Declaration of Sentiments, First Woman's Rights

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• We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Life, Change, Happiness

  Declaration of Independence (1776).

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• You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.

  William J. H. Boetcker

  Leadership, Courage, Freedom

  "Ten Cannots". Book by William J.H. Boetcker, 1916.

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• The future woman must have a life work and economic independence. She must have the right of motherhood at her own discretion.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Work, Future, Motherhood

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2012). “Darkwater: Voices from Within the Veil”, p.96, Courier Corporation

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• The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.

  Norma Shearer

  Men, Yesterday, Independence

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Until women learn to want economic independence, and until they work out a way to get this independence without denying themselves the joys of love and motherhood, it seems to me feminism has no roots.

  Crystal Eastman

  Motherhood, Equality, Roots

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on women and revolution”, Oxford University Press

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• When we traded homemaking for careers, we were implicitly promised economic independence and worldly influence. But a devil of a bargain it has turned out to be in terms of daily life. We gave up the aroma of warm bread rising, the measured pace of nurturing routines, the creative task of molding our families' tastes and zest for life; we received in exchange the minivan and the Lunchable.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Zest, Careers, Creative

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• This intolerable dependence on foreign oil threatens our economic independence and the very security of our nation. The energy crisis is real. It is worldwide. It is a clear and present danger to our nation. These are facts and we simply must face them.

  Jimmy Carter

  Real, Oil, Independence

  Energy and the National Goals - A Crisis of Confidence, delivered 15 July, 1979

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• Once people get a taste for whatever you want to call it - economic independence, a better lifestyle, and a better life for their children - they grab on to that and don't want to give it up.

  Thomas Friedman

  Children, People, Giving

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• Acumen Fund's patient capital investment in Western Seed is intended to enhance the food security and economic independence of Kenya's smallholder farmers.

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Independence, Acumen, Kenya

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• Perhaps the ideal life is that of the week-end artist, who preserves the integrity of his own aesthetic ideals because of his economic independence... If his daily grind is hateful he has his weekly solace in art.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Art, Integrity, Independence

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• I'm for economic independence.

  Charles Evers

  Independence, Economic

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• 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.

  Jenny Shipley

  Giving, Independence, Facts

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• After all the allowances are made for the necessity of having a few supermen in our midst - explorers, conquerors, great inventors, great presidents, heroes who change the course of history - the happiest man is still the man of the middle class who has earned a slight means of economic independence, who has done a little, but just a little, for mankind and who is slightly distinguished in his community, but not too distinguished.

  Lin Yutang

  Hero, Mean, Men

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• To the European immigrant - that is, to the aliens who have been converted into Americans by the advantages of American life - the Promise of America has consisted largely in the opportunity which it offered of economic independence and prosperity.

  Herbert Croly

  Opportunity, America, Independence

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Let it be immediately added, however, that this economic independence and prosperity has always been absolutely associated in the American mind with free political institutions.

  Herbert Croly

  Political, Independence, Mind

  Herbert Croly (2005). “The Promise of American Life”, p.10, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Feminists have emphasized for a long time the importance of each woman's individual entity and the necessity of economic independence. Perhaps it was necessary. But now I think we need some emphasis on the instinctive side of life, sex and motherhood.... Life isn't all earning your living. Unfortunately we fall in love and Feminism must take that into consideration.

  Dora Russell

  Falling In Love, Sex, Motherhood

  "Who is Dora Black?". Equal Rights Magazine, June 5, 1926.

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• Among the Mormons, things temporal have always been important along with things eternal, for salvation in this world and the next is seen as one and the same continuing process of endless growth. Building Zion, a literal Kingdom of God on earth, has therefore meant an identity of religious and economic values: in the daily affairs of the Kingdom, Latter-day Saint scriptures call for unity, welfare, and economic independence.

  Leonard J. Arrington

  Religious, Economic Value, Zion

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• Free trade is the serial killer of American manufacturing and the Trojan Horse of world government. It is the primrose path to the loss of economic independence and national sovereignty. Free trade is a bright, shining lie.

  Pat Buchanan

  Horse, Lying, Loss

  "Where the right went wrong". Book by Pat Buchanan, 2001.

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