Our land, like our
character, cannot be the object of buying and selling. Behind the buying and selling
of earth is the hidden process of buying and selling character.
Earth is the great gift which nature gave to people, and
the birth of every person in this world should give him the right to possess
this earth. And this right should be as natural as the right of a person to
have the breast of his mother.
— Jean Francois Marmontel
A person in our society
cannot sleep without paying for the place where he sleeps; he has the right to
have free air or water or sunlight only when he is on the road. The only right
he has is to walk along this road, until he becomes tired, or he cannot walk,
he has to continue walking.
The bodies of men and women, and even more importantly,
their children, should not be bought and sold. So too the water, the land and
air, because these things are necessary conditions of this existence.
— John Ruskin
People strive in
this world, not for those things which are truly good, but for the possession
of many things which they can call their property.
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