What is this you call property? It cannot be the earth, for the land is our mother, nourishing all her children, beasts, birds, fish and all men. The woods, the streams, everything on it belongs to everybody and is for the use of all. How can one man say it belongs only to him?
--Massasoit
I'll extend the 13th month by one day to include a quote I came across, attributed to Massasoit, a contemporary to the Pilgrims in the US. However, the earliest written reference I've found online is from the mid 1990s. I'd welcome any further scholarship on it.
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