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Dyer Lum Quotes

1839–1893 United States

Dyer Daniel Lum (February 15, 1839 – April 6, 1893) was an American anarchist, labor activist and poet. A leading syndicalist and a prominent left-wing intellectual of the 1880s, Lum is best remembered as the lover and mentor of early anarcha-feminist Voltairine de Cleyre.

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To my mind, the very assumption of “natural rights” is at war with evolution.

The Fiction of Natural Rights (1890)

Established order, being an instituted fixity, excludes reform, and whoever advocates change by that very act becomes an enemy to it.

Why I Am a Social Revolutionist (1890)

Events are the true schoolmasters.

Is not the whole long career of the proletariat but the “Martyrdom of Man” strewn with whitened bones, cemented with scalding tears welling up from broken hearts, and stained with the bleeding feet of countless millions?

Why I Am a Social Revolutionist (1890)

Precisely as water flows to a level when obstructions are removed, just so will social relations flow to equitable conditions when restrictions are swept away. And precisely also as liberty comes in does the assertion of “rights” go out.

The Fiction of Natural Rights (1890)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Dyer Lum (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.