Show ECONOMIC EQUALITY the cornerstone of our state is economic equality and is not that the obvious necessary and only adequate pledge of the three birthrights birt brights life liberty and happiness what is life without its material basis and what is an equal right to life but a right to an equal basis for it what is liberty how can men be free who must ask the right to labor and to live from their fellow men and seek their bread from the hands of others how else can any government guarantee liberty to men save providing them a means of labor and of life coupled with independence and how can that be done unless the government conducted the economic system how shall an equal opportunity for the pursuit of happiness be guaranteed to all save by a guarantee of economic equality edward bellamy |