Economy Quote by Seneca the Younger

Slavery holds few men fast; the greater number hold fast their slavery.

— Seneca the Younger

Slavery takes hold of few, but many take hold of slavery.

— Anonymous

“It is so, my dear Lucilius; there are a few men whom slavery holds fast, but there are many more who hold fast to…

— Seneca

It's modern-day slavery.

— Adrian Peterson

Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute…

— Anonymous

There are more black men incarcerated today than there were slaves in 1850.

— John Legend

“Men are much more forcibly struck by those inequalities which exist within the circle of the same class, than with those which may be…

— Alexis de Tocqueville

Wealthy men, too, like several of those in our neighborhood, had so many slaves that they were compelled to buy other plantations on which…

— John Sergeant Wise

A man's moral sense must be unusually strong if slavery does not make him a thief.

— Thomas Jefferson

...Slavery appears such a relatively mild business that one begins to wonder why Frederick Douglass and so many others ever tried to escape.

— Dinesh D'Souza

To this must be added that the hiring of labor and the conduct of trade are concentrated in the hands of comparatively few; so…

— Pope Leo XIII

Most of the people who come into slavery today, the people who enter into slavery for the first time in the present moment, are…

— Kevin Bales