--- title: "2 Martha Ackelsberg Quotes - Famous Writer" description: "American political scientist and women's studies scholar (born 1946)... | Martha A. Ackelsberg is an American political scientist, anarchist and women's..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb0/martha-ackelsberg-110138_anarchism_freedom-or-individual-liberty-was-a-basi_252357.jpg" --- # Martha Ackelsberg (1946) Writer **2** quotes in **12** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Martha Ackelsberg is a writer. ## Quick Facts About Martha Ackelsberg Born January 1, 1946 Profession Writer ## About Martha Ackelsberg American political scientist and women's studies scholar (born 1946)... \| Martha A. Ackelsberg is an American political scientist, anarchist and women's studies scholar. Her work focuses on the nature of power and its relationship with communities. Cases used in her research include feminist activism in the United States and the Mujeres Libres, an anarcha-feminist women's ## Quotes by Martha Ackelsberg > [“Freedom, or individual liberty, was a basic premise of the Spanish anarchist tradition. "Individual sovereignty" is a prime tenet of most anarchist…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-ackelsberg/freedom-or-individual-liberty-was-a-basic-premise-of-the-spanish/) Martha Ackelsberg [Anarchism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anarchism/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb0/martha-ackelsberg-110138_anarchism_freedom-or-individual-liberty-was-a-basi_252357.jpg) > [“Direct action meant that the goal of any and all of these activities was to provide ways for people to get in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martha-ackelsberg/direct-action-meant-that-the-goal-of-any-and-all-of-these-activities/) Martha Ackelsberg [Anarchism](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anarchism/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a03/martha-ackelsberg-110138_anarchism_direct-action-meant-that-the-goal-of-any_2304368.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martha-ackelsberg/#itemlist", "name": "Martha Ackelsberg Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Freedom, or individual liberty, was a basic premise of the Spanish anarchist tradition. \"Individual sovereignty\" is a prime tenet of most anarchist writing; the free development of one' s individual potential is one of the basic \"rights\" to which all humans are born. 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