Stolen Land Quotes

#1. Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood.

Colson Whitehead

#2. This is not just a war over stolen land, why do you think little boys are throwing stones at tanks?

Lowkey

#3. There could never really be justice on stolen land.

KRS-One

#4. Preaching is the pastor's main work, and preaching is heart work, not just mental work.

John Piper

#5. Dat's what they say of this cauntry back home, Kath: 'America, the land of milk and honey.' Bot they never tell you the milk's gone sour and the honey's stolen.

Andre Dubus III

#6. It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Thomas Carlyle

#7. The Second Amendment comes from the right to protect themselves from slave revolts, and from uprisings by Native Americans. A revolt from people who were stolen from their land or revolt from people whose land was stolen from, that's what the genesis of the Second Amendment is.

Danny Glover

#8. At home, the females of their race had been cherished. Something the human males didn't seem to do.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#9. All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth
including America, of course
consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen.

Mark Twain

#10. Change is uncomfortable, but it's helpful!

Israelmore Ayivor

#11. But art and religion will always shadow one another through the abstract nouns they both invoke: truth, seriousness, imagination, sympathy, morality, transcendence.

Julian Barnes

#12. Faith, hope, love, and insight are the highest achievements of human effort. They are found-given-by experience.

C. G. Jung