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“For example, at the fall of Rome there was very extensive slavery everywhere in Europe; by the time of the “Renaissance” it was long…

— Rodney Stark

“ The Making of an Empire Not all people were regarded as citizens and given the right to vote in the Roman Republic. Many…

— Jean F. Blashfield

“An economy built on slave labor is vulnerable in two ways. One, availability of forced labor discourages technical innovation. The very wealthy [Roman]empire experienced…

— Norman F. Cantor

I beg you, put an end to the occupation. I beg the Italian government and the Italian people to put pressure on the government…

— Giuliana Sgrena

“In Rome, too, slaves were the sunshine of every day and the nightmare of every night. Slavery stoked the empire’s life and its dread.…

— Eduardo Galeano

“But, because of the unwise provisions of the Treaty of Rome regarding freedom of movement, it has led to the mass emigration of the…

— Roger Scruton

“Indeed, the history of the recruitment of labor is an uninterrupted story of coercion either through the brute force of poverty or more direct…

— Michael Perelman

“ Leaving Italy Italians have been involved with North America from the time of Christopher Columbus. In the years when Italy was trying to…

— Jean F. Blashfield

“So we had the classic Italian compromise, a theater of strife when all was actually agreed. Anarchy is rare in Italy, but legality is…

— Tim Parks

The biggest problem in Italy is work. And out-of-control immigration damages the labor market because Italians can't compete with illegal workers who are being…

— Matteo Salvini

“Every Roman was surrounded by slaves. The slave and his psychology flooded ancient Italy, and every Roman became inwardly, and of course unwittingly, a…

— C.G. Jung