Frederick Douglass: “In any fair condition of things the men who till the soil will become…”

On the recordJanuary 1, 1881

In any fair condition of things the men who till the soil will become proprietors of the soil.

Said by

Frederick Douglass

Source

From his autobiography, Douglass articulates a principle of economic justice, suggesting that those who work the land should eventually own it.

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Frederick Douglass: “In any fair condition of things the men who till the soil will become proprietors of the soil.”