“a small number of wealthy landowners has dominated a large population of landless and small-holding peasants.” — Bob Copy Share Image
“Be they pharaohs or freeholders, barons or farmers, landowners have been the most capable, most intrepid, and most assertive members of civilized… — David Marusek Copy Share Image
While Congress can't overturn the Supreme Court, we can provide carrots and sticks to prevent local governments from unfairly taking property from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Brexit, for all its likely harms, represents an opportunity to pay landowners and tenants to do something completely different, rather than spending… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Whenever there are in any country uncultivated lands and unemployed poor, it is clear that the laws of property have been so… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Еhere's no doubt at all that the Norman conquest led to the hugely concentrated land ownership patterns that we still see in… — Paul Kingsnorth Copy Share Image
“The history of China’s “land reform” was written in the tears and blood of landowners like my great-grandfather. But the 300 million… — Helen Raleigh Copy Share Image
We have a wider political and economic system in which ancient, landed power still carries immense weight. There is nothing some landowners… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Men no longer love the soil. Landowners sell it, lease it, divide it into shares, prostitute it, bargain with it and treat… — Tashunka Witko Copy Share Image
We have landowners, small growers. We have people who are holding onto land that was acquired by their families after slavery. They… — Shirley Sherrod Copy Share Image
