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I make my war upon privilege and authority, whereby the right of property, the true right in that which is proper to the individual, is annihilated.

— Voltairine de Cleyre

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in "In Defense of Emma Goldmann and the Right of Expropriation", an address in Philadelphia (16 December 1893); Emma Goldman's name is misspelled Goldmann throughout the 1910 version. Some of this text is quoted as presented in Selected Works of Voltairine de Cleyre (1914) edited by Alexander Berkman

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