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What appears to be injustice in our eyes, in the sight of omniscience may be justice. God's ways are not our ways.
As long as the working-people fold hands and pray the gods in Washington to give them work, so long they will not get it.
In Defense of Emma Goldman and the Right of Expropriation (1893)
Miss Goldman is a communist; I am an individualist. She wishes to destroy the right of property, I wish to assert it.
In Defense of Emma Goldman and the Right of Expropriation (1893)
He gave a concrete example of the effect of sex slavery, and for it he is imprisoned.
Sex Slavery (1890)
But something he will attain, if he continues to aim high.
The Dominant Idea (1910)
An agent is usually held accountable to his principals.
The Economic Tendency of Freethought (1890)
This is not a question of expediency, but of right.
The Economic Tendency of Freethought (1890)
In the transition epoch, surely crimes will come.
The Economic Tendency of Freethought (1890)
First, then, God, being all-just, wishes to do justice; being all-wise, knows what justice is; being all-powerful, can do justice. Why then injustice?
The Economic Tendency of Freethought (1890)
In that day there shall be neither kings nor Americans — only Men; over the whole earth, MEN.
Anarchism & American Traditions (1908)
Hail to the Mexican Revolution, victorious or defeated. And hail to the next that rises!
The Mexican Revolt (1911)
I am told this is farfetched idealism, to paint this happy, povertyless, crimeless, diseaseless world; I have been told I "ought to be behind the bars" for it.
The Economic Tendency of Freethought (1890)
Bear it aloft, O roaring flame!
Skyward aloft, where all may see.
I make my war upon privilege and authority, whereby the right of property, the true right in that which is proper to the individual, is annihilated.
For the way is not strown with petal soft,
It is covered with hearts that weep,
And the wounds I tread touch a deeper source
Than you think it mine to keep.
And Thou Too (1888)
The paramount question of the day is not political, is not religious, but is economic. The crying-out demand of today is for a circle of principles that shall forever make it impossible for one man to control another by controlling the means of his existence.
The Economic Tendency of Freethought (1890)
Gods of the World! Their mouths are dumb!
Your guns have spoken and they are dust.
Once a great human demand is so made, it is never let go again. Future revolts will go on from there; they will never fall behind it.
The Mexican Revolt (1911)
Now for the remedy. It is in one word, the only word that ever brought equity anywhere — LIBERTY!
Sex Slavery (1890)
And sometimes when I am weary,
When the path is thorny and Wild,
I'll look back to the Eyes in the twilight,
Back to the eyes that smiled.
And Thou Too (1888)