"Political [or individual] rights do not exist because……" — Rudolf Rocker
"Political [or individual] rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will be meet with the violent resistance of the populace... One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being... The people owe all the political rights and privileges which we enjoy today, in greater or lesser measure, not to the good will of their governments, but to their own strength"
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14 Quotes by Rudolf Rocker
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The nation which can only be saved by one man and wants to be saved that way deserves a whipping!
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For the anarchist, freedom is not an abstract philosophical concept, but the vital concrete possibility of every human being to…
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Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual…
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The peoples owe all political rights and privileges which we enjoy today in greater or lesser measure, not to the…
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For the machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who…
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I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing…
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Power operates only destructively, bent always on forcing every manifestation of life into the straitjacket of its laws. Its intellectual…
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Anarchism is no patent solution for all human problems, no Utopia of a perfect social order, as it has often…
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Power always acts destructively, for its possessors are ever striving to lace all phenomena of social life into a corset…
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Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course,…
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People forgot that industry is not an end in itself, but should be only a means to insure to man…
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Culture is not created by command. It creates itself, arising spontaneously from the necessities of men and their social cooperative…
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