Collective responsibility Quote by Federica Montseny

“In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.”

Federica Montseny

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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

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The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.

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The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.

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We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.

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Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia.

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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.

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Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and…

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