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Passivity while slavery is stealing over us is a crime.

— Lucy Parsons

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Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.

The worker is a mere appendage to the capitalist factory. Machinery has eliminated him. Robert Burns said: “O God, that men should be so cheap, and bread should be so dear!”

Order can only exist where liberty prevails.

The philosophy of anarchism is included in the word "Liberty"; yet it is comprehensive enough to include all things else that are conducive to progress.

All who are at all familiar with history know that men will abuse power when they possess it.

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The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves.

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