Lupe Fiasco Quotes

No man should be allowed to own any land he does not use.

Man did not make the earth, and though he had a natural right to occupy it, he had no right to locate as his property in perpetuity, any part of it.

There is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of property.

Children learn many principles of natural law at a very early age. For example: they learn that when one child has picked up an apple or a flower, it is his, and that his associates must not take it from him against his will.

Land is the only thing in the world that amounts to anything, for 'Tis the only thing in this world that lasts, 'Tis the only thing worth working for, worth fighting for - worth dying for.

Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas that land should be utilized in common for the good of all.

The doctrine of state ownership of land … is the exact opposite of the regime of free trade. The doctrine of state ownership should not be allowed to prevail ...

What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth for the land is our mother… How can one man say it belongs only to him?

Every man has a right by nature to possess property as his own.

Private ownership of land is abolished. The entire land fund is declared the property of the nation and turned over free of cost to the toilers on the basis of equal right to its use.

God gave the world to men in common; but since he gave it them for their benefit and the greatest conveniences of life they were capable to draw from it, it cannot be supposed that he meant it should always remain common and uncultivated.

Land is not merely soil.

It appears that land is the true center of power, and that the balance of dominion changes with the balance of property…

The land is Mine.

AXIOM. — Property is the Right of Increase claimed by the Proprietor over any thing which he has stamped as his own.

That which you look upon as your own you may keep only so long as the world allows you to own it.

This isn't about love as in caring. This is about property as in ownership.

This land is made for you and me.

Land is something one should never sell. It is the only thing left when all else is gone

Every man has by nature the right to possess property as his own.

I refuse to pronounce the names of possession and nonpossession.

The country was made without lines of demarcation, and it is no man's business to divide it... Do not misunderstand me, but understand me fully with reference to my affection for the land. I never said the land was mine to do with it as I chose. The one who has the right to dispose of it is the one who created it. I claim a right to live on my land and accord you the privilege to live on yours.

The earth belongs to the living. No man can, by natural right, oblige the lands he occupied or the persons who succeed him in that occupation, to the payment of debts contracted by him. For if he could, he might, during his own life, eat up the use of the lands for several generations to come, and then the lands would belong to the dead, and not to the living. No generation can contract debts greater than may be paid during the course of its own existence.

Without property rights, no other rights are possible.

This land is your land, this land is my land