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Formerly the master selected the slave; today the slave selects his master, and he has got to find one or else he is carried down here to my friend, the gaoler.

— Albert Parsons Statement to the Court (1886)

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Anarchy is the natural law, instead of the man-made statute, and gives men leaders in the place of [slave] drivers and bosses.

Statement to the Court (1886)

The capitalistic system originated in the forcible seizure of natural opportunities and rights by a few, and then converting those things into special privileges which have since become vested rights, formally entrenched behind the bulwarks of statute law and government.

Statement to the Court (1886)

This capitalistic system that we have to-day would not exist twenty-four hours if it were not held together by the bayonets and the clubs of the militia and police.

Statement to the Court (1886)

Anarchy is a free society where there is no concentrated or centralized power, no State, no king, no emperor, no ruler, no president, no magistrate, no potentate of any character whatever. Law is the enslaving power of man.

Statement to the Court (1886)

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