Economic Upliftment Quotes
Many of the most liberated and accomplished women in history have been from wealthy families. And yet with all their money they could only go so far. They needed an entire movement of women of all classes—and men to finally attain suffrage and the progress made thus far. Wealthy women were very active, alongside with working and middle class women in most of the demonstrations and campaigns for women’s rights.
In Malaysia despite some of the world’s most racist laws against the ethnic Chinese, they still retain a disproportionate share of the wealth. The racist laws an the county’s notorious corruption have ironically produced a small Malay group of tycoons whose exploitation of the masses is notorious. They are protected by the government however as many are related to officials and their families, but logic such as this is actually publicly expounded to defend the situation.
Of all the inequalities that existed in society, the easiest one to overcome with effort is wealth. Race, blood, parentage, even education are not as easily overcome. Of all the inequalities, traditionally Americans have been least offended by that of wealth under the theory that with current effort that can often be overcome. It is only in the latter part of the 20th century where modern economics and sociology have shown that wealth inequality itself is also difficult to overcome, that money as a societal leveler has been conceptually diminished. Sedgwick was the first American to identify the phenomenon that had operated in early America.
