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Freedom means that you have the right to do a certain thing; but if you have no opportunity to do it, that right is sheer mockery.

— Alexander Berkman What Is Communist Anarchism? (1929)

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"Man's inhumanity to man" is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.

Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist (1912)

Liberty is an empty sound as long as you are kept in bondage economically.

What Is Communist Anarchism? (1929)

Once on the road of terrorism, the State necessarily becomes estranged from the people.

If your object is to secure liberty, you must learn to do without authority and compulsion.

What Is Anarchism? (1929)

Inhumanity is the keynote of stupidity in power.

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