And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on… — Voltairine de Cleyre Anarchism Copy Share Image
“It is the city that is wrong, and its creations can never be right; they may be improved; they can never be… — Voltairine de Cleyre Education Copy Share Image
Private enterprise manages better all that to which it is equal. Anarchism declares that private enterprise, whether individual or cooperative, is equal… — Voltairine de Cleyre Anarchism Copy Share Image
No one can hate petitions worse than I, and no one has less faith in them than I. But for my champion… — Voltairine de Cleyre Champion Copy Share Image
“[T]o remain in a continually exalted moral condition is not human nature.” — Voltairine de Cleyre Character Copy Share Image
“As to the essence of Commerce and Manufacture, it is this: to establish bonds between every corner of the earth’s surface and… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of… — Voltairine de Cleyre Anarchism Copy Share Image
There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines. — Voltairine de Cleyre Common Copy Share Image
“It is understood that when we speak of history we do not allude to the unspeakable trash contained in public school text-books… — Voltairine de Cleyre Education Copy Share Image
“Nearly all the laws which were originally framed with the intention of benefiting the workers, have either turned into weapons in their… — Voltairine de Cleyre Copy Share Image
[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]… — Voltairine de Cleyre Bread Copy Share Image
Is it not enough that 'things are cruel and blind'? Must we also be cruel and blind? — Voltairine de Cleyre Blind Copy Share Image
The revolution is ... the blow dealt ... agains the counter force of tyranny, which has never entirely recovered from the blow,… — Voltairine de Cleyre Blow Copy Share Image
... it is better to study how to live rather than how to die; ... it is better to have a religion… — Voltairine de Cleyre Creeds Copy Share Image
[The Catholic convent] had been like the Valley of the Shadow of Death, and there are white scars on my soul, where… — Voltairine de Cleyre Catholic Copy Share Image
There is no society for the prevention of cruelty to women. — Voltairine de Cleyre Cruelty Copy Share Image
As long as the working-people fold hands and pray the gods in Washington to give them work, so long they will not… — Voltairine de Cleyre Folds Copy Share Image
“I think the difficulty lies in the immeasurable vanity of the human adult, particularly the pedagogical adult,… which does not permit him… — Voltairine de Cleyre Education Copy Share Image
“If this is the price to be paid for an idea, then let us pay. There is no need of being troubled… — Voltairine de Cleyre Anarchism Copy Share Image
We are bound first to imform ourselves concerning so great a matter as the revolt of millions of people- what they are… — Voltairine de Cleyre Consciousness Copy Share Image
A man won't steal, ordinarily, unless that which he steals is something he cannot as easily get without stealing; in liberty the… — Voltairine de Cleyre Cost Copy Share Image
The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for… — Voltairine de Cleyre Circles Copy Share Image
A right , in the abstract, is a fact ; it is not a thing to be given, established, or conferred; it… — Voltairine de Cleyre Abstract Copy Share Image
What I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of… — Voltairine de Cleyre Action Copy Share Image