Edmund Clarence Stedman (1833–1908) American poet, critic, and essayist
"The Feast of the Harvest" in The Blameless Prince : And Other Poems (1869).
“All soil is human birthright.”
Variant translation: The whole world is a man's birthplace.
Source: Thebaid, Book VIII, Line 320 (tr. J. H. Mozley)
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Meher Baba (1894–1969) Indian mystic
Message to Garrett Fort (1936) <!-- Tr p194, also A p26 -->
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Context: It is never presumptuous for anyone to hope for realization. It is the goal of creation and the birthright of humanity. Blessed are they who are prepared to assert that right in this very life.
“Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity”
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher
Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysics of Ethics by Immanuel Kant, trans. J.W. Semple, ed. with Iintroduction by Rev. Henry Calderwood (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1886) (3rd edition). Chapter: GENERAL DIVISION OF JURISPRUDENCE. http://oll.libertyfund.org/?option=com_staticxt&staticfile=show.php%3Ftitle=1443&chapter=56215&layout=html&Itemid=27 <br class="br">Context: Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person’s freedom.
Yehudi Menuhin (1916–1999) American violinist and conductor
Quoted in: Dream It. List It. Do It!: How to Live a Bigger & Bolder Life, from the Life List Experts at 43Things.com http://books.google.co.in/books?id=_PBV0WJr9vsC&pg=PA98, Workman Publishing, 25 December 2008, p. 98
“Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection”
John Powell (1645–1713) American Jesuit priest
Annie Besant (1847–1933) British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator
Source: The Theosophist, Volume 33 http://books.google.co.in/books?id=wJ9VAAAAYAAJ, p. 190
Ti-Anna Wang (1989) Chinese dissident
"‘A Tale of Two Girls’" in NBC https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna52173136 (11 June 2013)
William McKinley (1843–1901) American politician, 25th president of the United States (in office from 1897 to 1901)
Quoted from July 12, 1900, on 1900 US campaign poster, of McKinley and his choice for second term Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt.
1900s
“The ignorant are like useless, brackish soil;
They exist and that is all.”
Thiruvalluvar book Tirukkuṛaḷ
Verse XLI.6
Tirukkural