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Quotation from Rerum Novarum by Pope Leo XIII
“a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself.”
Rerum Novarum, Introduction, on the causes of the conflict, trans. Anonymous (Benziger, 1903)
Leo's description of the condition of industrial workers after the abolition of the guilds.
Citation: "a small number of very rich men have been able to lay upon the teeming masses of the laboring poor a yoke little better than that of slavery itself." — Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum, Introduction, on the causes of the conflict, trans. Anonymous (Benziger, 1903). (id rerum-novarum-q1)
Portrait: Papa Leone XIII (3x4 cropped), Braun et Compagnie, Public domain.
