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It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation of the Midas-hand, whose cursed touch turns everything to the brutal service of Mammon.

— Alexander Berkman Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1912)

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Source: Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1912), Ch. 18: "The Solitary".
Work: Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist, 1912
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