Dorothy Thompson Quotes
When private property ceases to make free men, its only spiritual justification goes. Democracy and the widespread distribution of private property go together.
At the time, land was much more of a necessity for the average person than today in America. But in early America and much of the rest of the world today, without land one had little or no opportunity to do almost anything. So equality of land distribution was necessary for equality of opportunity. America never solved the problem of equality of land distribution; we just developed an economy where land was not longer so critical to opportunity.
Dorothy Thompson, 1894-1961, Journalist, 1936, Quoted in Eleanor Roosevelt, My Day, March 28, 1936
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