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Quotes from In Defense of Emma Goldman and the Right of Expropriation — Voltairine de Cleyre

1866–1912 United States

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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)

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)

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