“All our liberties are due to men who, when their conscience has compelled them, have broken the laws of the land.” MenLawLibertyLandBrokenConscienceDuesCompelled Author:William Kingdon Clifford
“What the Negro wants - and will not stop until he gets - is absolute and unqualified freedom and equality here in this land of his birth, and not in Africa or in some imaginary state. The Negro no longer will be tolerant of anything less than his due right and heritage. He is pursuing only that which he knows is honorably his. He knows that he is right.” KnowsWantStatesLandBirthAbsolutesDuesHeritageImaginaryUnqualifiedFreedom And Equality Author:Martin Luther King, Jr.
“As long as there are cold and nakedness in the land around you, so long can there be no question at all but that splendor of dress is a crime. In due time, when we have nothing better to set people to work at, it may be right to let them make lace and cut jewels; but as long as there are any who have no blankets for their beds, and no rags for their bodies, so long it is blanket-making and tailoring we must set people to work at, not lace.” PeopleMayLongBodyCuttingLandCrimeColdBedDressesDuesJewelsBlanketSplendorRagsLaceDue Time Author:John Ruskin
“The grand difficulty is to feel the reality of both worlds, so as to give each its due place in our thoughts and feelings, to keep our mind's eye and our heart's eye ever fixed on the land of promise, without looking away from the road along which we are to travel toward it.” WorldGivingFeelsMindHeartFeelingsRealityEyeLandPromiseFutureDifficultyDuesFixedOur ThoughtsThoughts And FeelingsLooking Away Author:Augustus William Hare
“The popularity of the famous device of the use of lands into England is said to be largely due to the mendicant friars of the then new Orders of St. Dominic and St. Francis, who, arriving in this country, in the first half of the thirteenth century, found themselves hampered by their own vows of poverty, no less than by the growing feeling against Mortmain in acquiring the provision of land absolutely necessary for their rapidly developing work.” FirstsSaidCountryUseFeelingsOrderFoundHalfPovertyGrowingLandCenturyEnglandDuesDevelopingDevicesPopularityVowProvisionArrivingFriars Book:A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919 Source: A Short History of English Law: From the Earliest Times to the End of the Year 1919
“People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.” PeopleLandHappeningsDuesDoomScenariosFamineLiving On Author:David Attenborough
“... woman's cause is the cause of the weak; and when all the weak shall have received their due consideration, then woman will have her "rights," and the Indian will have his rights, and the Negro will have his rights, and all the strong will have learned at last to deal justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly; and our fair land will have been taught the secret of universal courtesy which is after all nothing but the art, the science, and the religion of regarding one's neighbor as one's self, and to do for him as we would, were conditions swapped, that he do for us.” Has BeensArtSelfLastsStrongCausesJusticeWalksDealsSecretRightsLandConditionsTaughtFairsWeakMercyUniversalSocial JusticeDuesNeighborIndianConsiderationCourtesyStrong Will Author:Anna Julia Cooper
“The road to conservation is paved with good intentions that often prove futile, or even dangerous, due to a lack of understanding of either land or economic land use.” UseUnderstandingEconomicLandDangerousProveIntentionDuesConservationGood IntentionsLack Of UnderstandingLand Use Author:Aldo Leopold