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Quote by Mikhail Bakunin
Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud

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

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Even the most wretched individual of our present society could not exist and develop without the cumulative social efforts of countless generations. – Mikhail Bakunin

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Society
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To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt. – Mikhail Bakunin

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Revolution
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In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards. – Bertrand Russell

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While there is a lower class I am in it, while there is a criminal element I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free. – Eugene V. Debs, Cleveland, 1917

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We will have bigger bureaucracies, bigger labor unions, and bigger state-run corporations. It will be harder to be an entrepreneur because of punitive taxes and regulations. The rewards of success will be expropriated for the sake of attaining greater income equality. – Arthur C. Brooks

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Equality

Give us equality of enjoyment, equal right to expansion – it is as necessary to our prosperity as yours. – Robert Toombs

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