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Quotes About Dispossession

Even the rising number of poor whites being swept into prison by corporate dispossession and profiteering today are often "blackened," in the sense of being marked in the eyes of the larger society as "transgressive" and in some of the ways often meted out to persons of color. In
~ Unknown
Fourteen billion dollars in gold alone have been taken out of our sacred land and they offer us 120 million in compensation!
~ Mary Brave Bird
I consider how we have crowded them and dispossessed them from the Atlantic on westward. They have been driven and harried and cheated. Perhaps they feel that by taking captives they will convince us to stop.
~ Paulette Jiles
Hear, O Israel: Today you are about to cross the Jordan to go in and dispossess nations greater and stronger than you, with large cities fortified to the heavens.
~ Deuteronomy 9:1
then the LORD will drive out all these nations before you, and you will dispossess nations greater and stronger than you.
~ Deuteronomy 11:23
When the LORD your God cuts off before you the nations you are entering to dispossess, and you drive them out and live in their land,
~ Deuteronomy 12:29
And our fathers who received it brought it in with Joshua when they dispossessed the nations God drove out before them. It remained until the time of David,
~ Acts 7:45