Horace Greeley on Money System Slavery
on Thursday, September 25, 2014Horace Greeley Money Quotation saying unequal regulations which apply more favorably to manipulation by the wealthy are as good as slavery. Horace Greeley said:
“By our iniquitous money system we have manipulated a system of oppression which, though more refined, is no less cruel than the old system of chattel slavery” — Horace Greeley
Horace Greeley is criticizing the monetary system of his time as a form of oppression similar to slavery. He argues that through the way money is manipulated in the system, it oppresses people in a way that, while more subtle than outright ownership of people as property, is just as cruel.
Greeley believes the monetary system of the time functioned to control and exploit people in an inhumane manner similar to how slavery operated through the ownership and control of enslaved people as chattels (moveable property).
His quote condemns the monetary system for subjecting people to oppression and lack of freedom through economic means.
Birthday: February 3, 1811 – Death: November 29, 1872