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As to the American tradition of non-meddling, Anarchism asks that it be carried down to the individual himself.
Anarchism & American Traditions (1908)
The love of material ease has been, in the mass of men and permanently speaking, always greater than the love of liberty.
Anarchism & American Traditions (1908)
Of the exercise of a right power may deprive me; of the right itself, never.
The Economic Tendency of Freethought (1890)
I would rather, much rather, be illegitimate according to the statutes of men, than illegitimate according to the unchanging law of Nature.
Sex Slavery (1890)
Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man's determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations.
Anarchism & American Traditions (1908)
Flame out the living words of the dead
Written-in-red.
You will never get right until you start right.
Sex Slavery (1890)
Those who, by the essence of their belief, are committed to Direct Action only are — just who? Why, the non-resistants; precisely those who do not believe in violence at all!
Direct Action (1912)
And the foregoing of possessions for which others barter the last possibility of freedom will become easy.
There is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.
Direct Action (1912)
The rulers of the earth are sowing a fearful wind, to reap a most terrible whirlwind.
In the name of Purity what lies are told! What queer morality it has engendered.
Sex Slavery (1890)
The giant is blind, but he's thinking: and his locks are growing, fast.
Humanity can not be made equal by declarations on paper. Unless the material conditions for equality exist, it is worse than mockery to pronounce men equal.
In Defense of Emma Goldman and the Right of Expropriation (1893)
A right, in the abstract, is a fact; it is not a thing to be given, established, or conferred; it is. Of the exercise of a right power may deprive me; of the right itself, never.
The Economic Tendency of Freethought (1890)
One is the struggle, and in One name —
Manhood— we battle to set men free.
"Uncurse us the Land!" burn the words of the Dead,
Written-in-red.
The Puritans had accused the Quakers of "troubling the world by preaching peace to it." They refused to pay church taxes; they refused to bear arms; they refused to swear allegiance to any government.
Direct Action (1912)
Sometimes I dream of this social change. I get a streak of faith in Evolution, and the good in man.
The Economic Tendency of Freethought (1890)
Fair, cold, and faithless wert thou, my own!
For that I love
Thy heart of stone!
There is naught can show
A life so trustless! Proud be thy crown!
Ruthless, like none, save the Sea, alone!