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Voltairine de Cleyre on Independence Day

1866–1912 United States

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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)

And the foregoing of possessions for which others barter the last possibility of freedom will become easy.

Now for the remedy. It is in one word, the only word that ever brought equity anywhere — LIBERTY!

Sex Slavery (1890)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Voltairine de Cleyre (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.