Quotation by

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man.

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Martin Luther King, Jr. is saying that property exists to support human life, but it is not a living thing itself and cannot have personal qualities.

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