"The equal right of all men to the use of land is as clear as their equal right to breathe the air — it is a right proclaimed by the fact of their existence. For we cannot suppose that some men have a right to be in this world, and others no right."

Henry George, Progress and Poverty (1879)

"The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamed. But...little children are at work, men die of starvation, and puny infants suckle dry breasts...The promised land flies before us like the mirage."