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Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights
Dans le fait les lois sont toujours utiles à ceux qui possèdent et nuisibles à ceux qui nont rien. Doù il suit que létat social nest avantageux aux hommes quautant quils ont tous quelque chose et quaucun deux na rien de trop. We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people – whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth – is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure
We have come to a clear realization of the fact that true individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. Necessitous men are not free men. The political costs of inequality
Another cost of inequality: Corruption
Franklin Roosevelt on social and economic rights
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© 1996, 1999 Andrew Reding, Project Director and Senior Fellow, World Policy Institute you are visitor
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