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Teddy Roosevelt: “Then we are free to seek not only the heaping up of material wealth, but a wise and generous distribution of such wealth…”

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Then we are free to seek not only the heaping up of material wealth, but a wise and generous distribution of such wealth so as to diminish grinding poverty, and, so far as may be, to equalize social and economic no less than political opportunity.
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Teddy Roosevelt
Republican · New York

Editor's note · Context

Roosevelt calls for a fair distribution of wealth to alleviate poverty and promote equality of opportunity.

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