So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments, and owe their whole existence to the power derived from government we cannot help but… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth. — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be found who stand aloof and almost alone in their determination to work for good rather than gold, who suffer want and persecution rather than desert principle, who can bravely walk to the scaffold for the good… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share
If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
The coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place; still we… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
“Never since the days of the Spartan Helots has history recorded such brutality as has been ever since the war and as is now being perpetrated upon the Negro in the South. How easy for us to go to Russia and drop a tear of sympathy over the persecuted Jew. But a step across Mason's and Dixon's line will bring… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share
Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging,… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the boss which must be changed?. — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging,… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
Anarchism has but one infallible, unchangeable motto, 'Freedom.' Freedom to discover any truth, freedom to develop, to live naturally and fully. — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
Strike not for a few cents more an hour, because the price of living will be raised faster still, but strike for all you… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of… — Lucy Parsons Copy Share Image
