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Life Quotes by Lucy Parsons

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Life can feel like a battlefield of expectations, doubts, and fleeting moments. Lucy Parsons, whose activism shook 19th‑century America, writes with a fierce clarity that cuts through the noise. Her reflections on purpose, struggle, and resilience give readers a sturdy compass when the world seems chaotic.

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If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men…

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If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men…

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Strike not for a few cents more an hour, because the price of living will be raised faster still, but strike for…

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Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.

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We must devastate the avenues where the wealthy live

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If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be…

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If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be…

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The coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place; still we…

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“Never since the days of the Spartan Helots has history recorded such brutality as has been ever since the war and as is now…

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Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging,…

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Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the boss which must be changed?.

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Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging,…

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Anarchism has but one infallible, unchangeable motto, 'Freedom.' Freedom to discover any truth, freedom to develop, to live naturally and fully.

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Strike not for a few cents more an hour, because the price of living will be raised faster still, but strike for all you…

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Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of…

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So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in…

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Concentrated power can be always wielded in the interest of the few and at the expense of the many. Government in its last analysis…

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Oh, Misery, I have drunk thy cup of sorrow to its dregs, but I am still a rebel.

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