But what the working-class can do, when once they grow into a solidified organization, is to show the possessing class, through a… — Voltairine de Cleyre Class Copy Share Image
Years! Years, ye shall mix with me! Ye shall grow a part Of the laughing Sea; Of the moaning heart Of the… — Voltairine de Cleyre Cold Copy Share Image
I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly. — Voltairine de Cleyre Allegiance Copy Share Image
“Our radicals fail to realize that to accomplish the reorganization of work, it is necessary to have workers – and workers with… — Voltairine de Cleyre Current events Copy Share Image
Let every woman ask herself: "Why am I the slave of man? Why is my brain said not to be the equal… — Voltairine de Cleyre Asks Copy Share Image
Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech… — Voltairine de Cleyre Abuse Copy Share Image
Speak, speak, speak, & remember that whenever anyone's liberty to speak is denied, your liberty is denied also, & your place is… — Voltairine de Cleyre Denied Copy Share Image
I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one. — Voltairine de Cleyre Crime Copy Share Image
This is what the government is, has always been, the creator and defender of privilege; the organization of oppression and revenge. To… — Voltairine de Cleyre Anarchy Copy Share Image
I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it. — Voltairine de Cleyre Freedom Copy Share Image
As to the American tradition of non-meddling, Anarchism asks that it be carried down to the individual himself. — Voltairine de Cleyre American tradition Copy Share Image
Government is as unreal, as intangible, as unapproachable as God. Try it, if you don't believe it. Seek through the legislative halls… — Voltairine de Cleyre Agents Copy Share Image
There is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another. — Voltairine de Cleyre Anarchy Copy Share Image
“Set the standard as high as you will; live to it as near as you can; and if you fail, try yourself,… — Voltairine de Cleyre Psychology Copy Share Image
The question of souls is old—we demand our bodies, now. We are tired of promises, god is deaf, and his church is… — Voltairine de Cleyre Body Copy Share Image
“[F]or the nature of government is to become a thing apart, an institution existing for its own sake, preying upon the people,… — Voltairine de Cleyre Nature Copy Share Image
And sometimes when I am weary, When the path is thorny and Wild, I'll look back to the Eyes in the twilight,… — Voltairine de Cleyre Beautiful Copy Share Image
Among the fundamental likeness between the Revolutionary Republicans and the Anarchists is the recognition that the little must precede the great; that… — Voltairine de Cleyre Anarchism Copy Share Image
Capitalistic Anarchism ? Oh, yes, if you choose to call it so. Names are indifferent to me; I am not afraid of… — Voltairine de Cleyre Anarchism Copy Share Image
If the believers in liberty wish the principles of liberty taught, let them never intrust that instruction to any government; for the… — Voltairine de Cleyre Believer Copy Share Image
If you choose the liberty and pride and strength of the single soul, and the free fraternization of men, as the purpose… — Voltairine de Cleyre Bitter Copy Share Image
“We dabble in many things; but the one great real idea of our age, not copied from any other, not pretended, not… — Voltairine de Cleyre Capitalism Copy Share Image
Socialism and Communism both demand a degree of joint effort and administration which would beget more regulation than is wholly consistent with… — Voltairine de Cleyre Administration Copy Share Image
Miss Goldman is a Communist; I am an Individualist. She wishes to destroy the right of property; I wish to assert it.… — Voltairine de Cleyre Authority Copy Share Image
