“[T]o remain in a continually exalted moral condition is not human nature.” — Voltairine de Cleyre Character Copy Share Image
There is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another. — Voltairine de Cleyre Anarchy Copy Share Image
I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it. — Voltairine de Cleyre Freedom Copy Share Image
There is no society for the prevention of cruelty to women. — Voltairine de Cleyre Cruelty Copy Share Image
I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one. — Voltairine de Cleyre Crime Copy Share Image
Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind? — Voltairine de Cleyre Blind Copy Share Image
There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines. — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
As to the American tradition of non-meddling, Anarchism asks that it be carried down to the individual himself. — Voltairine de Cleyre American tradition Copy Share Image
“[F]or the nature of government is to become a thing apart, an institution existing for its own sake, preying upon the people,… — Voltairine de Cleyre Government Copy Share Image
I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly. — Voltairine de Cleyre Allegiance Copy Share Image
Speak, speak, speak, & remember that whenever anyone's liberty to speak is denied, your liberty is denied also, & your place is… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
The question of souls is old—we demand our bodies, now. We are tired of promises, god is deaf, and his church is… — Voltairine de Cleyre Body Copy Share Image
A right , in the abstract, is a fact ; it is not a thing to be given, established, or conferred; it… — Voltairine de Cleyre Abstract Copy Share Image
Capitalistic Anarchism ? Oh, yes, if you choose to call it so. Names are indifferent to me; I am not afraid of… — Voltairine de Cleyre Anarchism Copy Share Image
We are bound first to imform ourselves concerning so great a matter as the revolt of millions of people- what they are… — Voltairine de Cleyre Consciousness Copy Share Image
Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with… — Voltairine de Cleyre Administration Copy Share Image
“Nearly all the laws which were originally framed with the intention of benefiting the workers, have either turned into weapons in their… — Voltairine de Cleyre Direct action Copy Share Image
The revolution is ... the blow dealt ... agains the counter force of tyranny, which has never entirely recovered from the blow,… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of… — Voltairine de Cleyre Anarchism Copy Share Image
Let every woman ask herself: "Why am I the slave of man? Why is my brain said not to be the equal… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
“As to the essence of Commerce and Manufacture, it is this: to establish bonds between every corner of the earth’s surface and… — Voltairine de Cleyre Essence Copy Share Image
Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech… — Voltairine de Cleyre Abuse Copy Share Image
“It is the city that is wrong, and its creations can never be right; they may be improved; they can never be… — Voltairine de Cleyre Education Copy Share Image
And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on… — Voltairine de Cleyre Anarchism Copy Share Image
“Our radicals fail to realize that to accomplish the reorganization of work, it is necessary to have workers – and workers with… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
Miss Goldman is a Communist; I am an Individualist. She wishes to destroy the right of property; I wish to assert it.… — Voltairine de Cleyre Authority Copy Share Image
Among the fundamental likeness between the Revolutionary Republicans and the Anarchists is the recognition that the little must precede the great; that… — Voltairine de Cleyre Anarchism Copy Share Image
“Set the standard as high as you will; live to it as near as you can; and if you fail, try yourself,… — Voltairine de Cleyre Psychology Copy Share Image
“I think the difficulty lies in the immeasurable vanity of the human adult, particularly the pedagogical adult,… which does not permit him… — Voltairine de Cleyre Education Copy Share Image
But what the working-class can do, when once they grow into a solidified organization, is to show the possessing class, through a… — Voltairine de Cleyre Class Copy Share Image
As long as the working-people fold hands and pray the gods in Washington to give them work, so long they will not… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal… — Voltairine de Cleyre Anarchism Copy Share Image
No one can hate petitions worse than I, and no one has less faith in them than I. But for my champion… — Voltairine de Cleyre Champion Copy Share Image
Government is as unreal, as intangible, as unapproachable as God. Try it, if you don't believe it. Seek through the legislative halls… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of… — Voltairine de Cleyre Action Copy Share Image
[The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where… — Voltairine de Cleyre Catholic Copy Share Image
The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for… — Voltairine de Cleyre Circles Copy Share Image
... it is better to study how to live rather than how to die; ... it is better to have a religion… — Voltairine de Cleyre Creeds Copy Share Image
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