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Voltairine de Cleyre on Power

1866–1912 United States

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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)

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)

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