Lucy Parsons Quotes

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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 is…
• The coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place; still we are…
• Strike not for a few cents more an hour, because the price of living will be raised faster still, but strike for all you earn,…
• Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.
• Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor…
• Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the…
• Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the boss which must be changed?.
• 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…
• 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,…
• We must devastate the avenues where the wealthy live
• Anarchism has but one infallible, unchangeable motto, 'Freedom.' Freedom to discover any truth, freedom to develop, to live naturally and fully.
• 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…
• Oh, Misery, I have drunk thy cup of sorrow to its dregs, but I am still a rebel.

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