This is what the government is, has always been, the creator and defender of privilege; the organization of oppression and revenge. To hope that it can ever become anything else is the vainest of delusions. They tell you that Anarchy,… — 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
“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
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
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
“[T]o remain in a continually exalted moral condition is not human nature.” — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share
“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
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
There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines. — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share
“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
“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
[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
Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind? — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share
The revolution is ... the blow dealt ... agains the counter force of tyranny, which has never entirely recovered from the blow, but which… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share
... it is better to study how to live rather than how to die; ... it is better to have a religion of deeds… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share
