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Private property in land is a grave wrong comparable to chattel slavery
Drawn from what Henry George said
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- Henry George American political economist (1839 to 1897)
The truth is, and from this truth there can be no escape, that there is and can be no just title to an exclusive possession of the soil, and that private property in land is a bold, bare, enormous wrong, like that of chattel slavery.
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↗Progress and Poverty (1879; Memorial Edition)gutenberg.org
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