"If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle……" — Lucy Parsons
"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 who stand aloof and almost alone in their determination to work for good rather than gold, who suffer want and persecution rather than desert principle, who can bravely walk to the scaffold for the good they can do humanity, what may we expect from men when freed from the grinding necessity of selling the better part of themselves for bread?"
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Lucy Parsons
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13 Quotes by Lucy Parsons
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Concentrated power can be always wielded in the interest of the few and at the expense of the many. Government…
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The coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to…
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Strike not for a few cents more an hour, because the price of living will be raised faster still, but…
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Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.
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Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not…
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Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps…
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Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the boss which must be changed?.
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If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and…
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So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses…
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We must devastate the avenues where the wealthy live
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Anarchism has but one infallible, unchangeable motto, 'Freedom.' Freedom to discover any truth, freedom to develop, to live naturally and…
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Oh, Misery, I have drunk thy cup of sorrow to its dregs, but I am still a rebel.
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