“All land belongs to the Muslims, because it belongs to their God.”
Muhammad Iqbál (1877–1938) Urdu poet and leader of the Pakistan Movement
Source: Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (1992). Negationism in India: Concealing the record of Islam.
As quoted in Islam and Nationalism, Dr. Ali Mohammed Naqvi . Also translated as: "All land belongs to Muslims, because it belongs to their God. in : JPRS Report: Near East & South Asia, 93067 Foreign Broadcast Information Service, 1993 https://books.google.com/books?id=rki6AAAAIAAJ
“All land belongs to the Muslims, because it belongs to their God.”
Muhammad Iqbál (1877–1938) Urdu poet and leader of the Pakistan Movement
Source: Quoted from Elst, Koenraad (1992). Negationism in India: Concealing the record of Islam.
“Not an inch of the land belongs to you, but every inch could easily imprison you.”
Ai Weiwei (1957) Chinese concept artist
Ai Weiwei Twitter feed: @AiWW (9:10 a.m. May 21, 2010)
2010-, Twitter feeds, 2010-12
Jomo Kenyatta (1893–1978) First prime minister and first president of Kenya
From a speech given in Nyeri, Kenya, 26 July 1952.
Aldo Leopold book A Sand County Almanac
Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, Foreword, p. viii.
Context: Conservation is getting nowhere because it is incompatible with our Abrahamic concept of land. We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect. There is no other way for land to survive the impact of mechanized man, nor for us to reap from it the aesthetic harvest it is capable, under science, of contributing to culture.
“The land belongs to those who work it with their hands.”
Emiliano Zapata (1879–1919) Mexican Revolutionary
La tierra es de quien la trabaja con sus manos.
Quoted as a slogan of the revolutionaries in Shirt-Sleeve Diplomat (1947) Vol. 5, p. 199, by Josephus Daniels, and specifically attributed to Zapata by Ángel Zúñiga in 1998, as quoted in Mexican Social Movements and the Transition to Democracy (2005), by John Stolle-McAllister
“It is often said that the earth belongs to the race, as if raw land was a boon, or gift.”
William Graham Sumner (1840–1910) American academic
"What Social Classes Owe to Each Other", 1883, Ch III http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/sumner-what-social-classes-owe-to-each-other.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–1968) American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Civil Rights Movement
And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York. Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous peaks of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring from every hill and every molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring.
1960s, I Have A Dream (1963)
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
" The Gift Outright http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/994.html" (1941) <br class="br">1940s