Own Land Quotes
28 quotes by 26 authors
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My daddy wanted me to be a farmer; feel the smoothness of Alabama clay and become one of the first blacks in my town to…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Where all your rights become only an accumulated wrong; where men must beg with bated breath for leave to subsist in their own land, to…
— Roger Casement
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Humor is widely used by Indians to deal with life. Indian gatherings are marked by laughter and jokes, many directed at the horrors of history,…
— Paula Gunn Allen
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People who make war in order to escape slavery may possibly win....This will doubtless bring death and suffering to thousands....But people who tamely allow slavery…
— Kenneth Roberts
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Perhaps all women are part faerie, for what woman can deny her faerie blood when the portals to her own land are open; when the…
— Brian Froud
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What more delightful avocation than to take a piece of land and by cautious experimentation to prove how it works. What more substantial service to…
— Aldo Leopold
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Where others fear trade and economic growth, we see opportunities for creating new wealth and undreamed-of opportunities for millions in our own land and beyond.…
— Ronald Reagan
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There is only one reason for art in America, and that is that the people of America learn the means of expressing themselves in their…
— Robert Henri
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I don't see any justification for the federal government owning land, other than the Statue of Liberty and maybe a few parks, maybe a few…
— Don Young
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Why not include a provision that everybody shall, in good weather, hunt on his own land and catch fish in rivers that are public property…
— Noah Webster
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The reality is that the founding fathers were land speculators. The fact was that you couldn't vote in this country if you did not own…
— Winona LaDuke
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Death most resembles a prophet who is without honor in his own land or a poet who is a stranger among his people.
— Khalil Gibran
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True patriotism hates injustice in its own land more than anywhere else.
— Clarence Darrow
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Satan has control now. No matter where you look, he is in control, even in our own land. He is guiding the governments as far…
— Joseph Fielding Smith
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Many of us are returning from a long journey during which we were forced to search for things that were of no interest to us.…
— Paulo Coelho
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I cannot,' said Merry. 'I have never seen them. I have never been outside of my own land before. And if I had known what…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Better to die for my people in my own land than rule in another and suffer a lifetime of cowardly guilt.
— Darren Shan
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This is our world, although the people who drew this map decided to put their own land on top of ours. There is no top…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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In uniform patriotism can salute one flag only, embrace but the first circle of life-one's own land and tribe. In war that is necessary, in…
— Bill Moyers
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Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land; and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.
— Gabriel Byrne
Who Wrote These Own Land Quotes
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