2001 Quote by Ta-Nehisi Coates

African-Americans were dispossessed of the land by being brought over here in slave ships, whereas Indians were on the land and fought literally wars…

— Robert A. Williams, Jr

“The United States paid $7.5 million for the lands, which were divided into small parcels and sold to natives, creating a new landowning class.”

— Doris Kearns Goodwin

When there wasn't any money involved, for all intents and purposes, nobody gave a damn. But now the land, supposedly worthless, is seen for…

— Neil Abercrombie

“Black-on-black crime’ is jargon, violence to language, which vanishes the men who engineered the covenants, who fixed the loans, who planned the projects, who…

— Ta-Nehisi Coates

We have landowners, small growers. We have people who are holding onto land that was acquired by their families after slavery. They need to…

— Shirley Sherrod

“The story would be told many times in American history: Black property legally or illegally seized; the resulting Black destitution blamed on Black inferiority;”

— Ibram X. Kendi

Ever since the promise of '40 acres and a mule,' we have not delivered for Black people in this country. We have completely stolen…

— Fred Hechinger

“The White Man has taken most of our land. He has paid us nothing for it. He has destroyed or driven away the game…

— William F. Cody

“I don't expect everyone to feel the same way that I do about land. For so many of us, the scars are still too…

— J. Drew Lanham

Our children are our signature to the roster of history; our land is merely the place our money was made. There is as yet…

— Aldo Leopold

“Everything in US history is about the land—who oversaw and cultivated it, fished its waters, maintained its wildlife; who invaded and stole it; how…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong,…

— Aldo Leopold