What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of all political action is coercion; even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club,… — Voltairine de Cleyre 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 shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that "freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty… — Voltairine de Cleyre 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 the ruins… — Voltairine de Cleyre 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 what they… — 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 to all… — Voltairine de Cleyre 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 I am… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
“[T]o remain in a continually exalted moral condition is not human nature.” — 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 every other… — 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 morality. It… — Voltairine de Cleyre 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
“It is understood that when we speak of history we do not allude to the unspeakable trash contained in public school text-books (which in… — Voltairine de Cleyre 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 enemies’ hands,… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
[The married woman is] is a bonded slave, who takes her master's name, her master's bread, and serves her master's passion; [and] who passes… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
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