Quotes about Land Occupation

Ro Khanna

Our troops shouldn't be mired in taking land for the Afghan military, providing force protection and fighting a permanent insurgency.

John Ruskin

Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor.

Philip Henry Sheridan

At a meeting which occurred in Washington on the 3d of November […] the President decided that while the orders heretofore issued forbidding the occupation of the Black Hills country by miners should not be rescinded, still no fixed resistance by the military should be made to the miners going in.... Will you therefore cause the troops in your Department to assume such attitude as will meet the views of the President in this respect.

Prior, the Military, worked hard to enforce the Fort Laramie Treaty which gave the Lakota Sioux Indian Tribe exclusive use of the Black Hills. Bu then gold was accidentally found in the Black Hills and white miners started to illegally enter the Lakota territory. Many of them killed Indians that they ran across. See Quotation 643700. President Grant, under huge political pressure instructed General Sheridan to stop enforcing the provisions of the treaty and keep the whites out of the Black Hills. They idea was to allow the miners to clash with the Lakota who would likely defend their sacred land, and when some whites had been killed, send the army in to “pacify” the Indians and use that as a means of relegation of the Treaty so the the gold areas would bee legally accessible.

Jonathan Demme

The occupied territories and the movement of settlements - moving people today off of their property and claiming it - is illegal.

George Washington

It (the proclamation of 1763) must fall, of course, in a few years, especially when those Indians consent to our occupying the lands. Any person, therefore, who neglects the present opportunity of hunting out good lands, and in some measure marking out and distinguishing them for his own, in order to keep others from settling them, will never regain it.

In the midst of the French & Indian Wars, the Board of Trade drafted the royal proclamation of October 7, 1763, forbidding the granting of lands in the vast interior, which was specifically reserved to the Indians. Washington had earlier reservations about the attempt to protect Indian lands for the Indians. See {612772} Washington after the American Revolution did grant and protect Indian lands to the minority of the Indians who had allied with the Americans against the British and the majority of the other Indian tribes.

William H. Wharton

The lands granted were in the occupancy of savages and situated in a wilderness, of which the government had never taken possession, and of which it could not with its own citizens ever have taken possession.

Plutarch

Of the territory which the Romans won in war from their neighbors, a part they sold, and a part they made common land, and assigned it for occupation to the poor and indignant among the citizens…

Aziz Choudry

Some definitions of ‘terrorist’ are so broad that they can be stretched to include anything from strikes to land occupations.

Peter Farb

The desire of Whites to occupy Indian lands, and the constant rivalry between French and English traders for furs gathered by the Indians, led to many skirmishes and several bloody wars, all of which involved Indians on both sides. The Whites were determined to fight it our with each other --down to the last Indian. These battles culminated in the French and Indian War of 1763, which represented a disaster to many Indian groups in the northeastern part of the continent.

George Galloway

Stop invading Muslims lands! How can you expect Muslims to love you when you are forcefully occupying their lands and murdering their people?

Josiah Strong

There are no more new worlds. The unoccupied arable lands of the earth are limited, and will soon be taken.

Land Occupation Quotes