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I consider discipline indispensable, but it must be inner discipline, motivated by a common purpose and a strong feeling of comradeship.

— Buenaventura Durruti

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It is possible that only a hundred of us will survive, but with that hundred we shall enter Saragossa, beat Fascism and proclaim libertarian communism.

Don't you see why I'll continue fighting as long as these social injustices exist?

I have been an Anarchist all my life. I hope I have remained one.

We shall show you, bolsheviks, how to make a revolution.

When the bourgeoisie sees power slipping from its grasp, it has recourse to fascism to maintain itself.

Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Spain (1963)

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