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« Previous PageFrederick Douglass: Judge Gets 10 Dollars
on Thursday, July 13, 2017Frederick Douglass Money Quote saying Fugitive Slave Law in mid 19th Century made it profitable for judges to decide against slaves and for owners. Frederick Douglass said:
“The Fugitive Slave Law makes mercy to them a crime; and bribes the judge who tries them. An American judge gets ten dollars for every victim he consigns to slavery, and five, when he fails to do so” — Frederick Douglass
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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
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Leo Tolstoy: Money Master of Slavery
on Sunday, November 28, 2010Leo Tolstoy Money Quote saying those who toil endlessly for cash without personal relationships with the means of earning it, makes us slaves to our desire for more of it. Leo Tolstoy said:
“Money is a new form of slavery, and distinguishable from the old simply by the fact that it is impersonal – that there is no human relation between master and slave” — Leo Tolstoy
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Birthday September 9, 1828