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I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or eart...

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It is the city that is wrong, and its creations can never be right; they may be improved; they can n...

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The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader

We dabble in many things; but the one great real idea of our age, not copied from any other, not pre...

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The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader

If this is the price to be paid for an idea, then let us pay. There is no need of being troubled abo...

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Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre -- Anarchist

I think the difficulty lies in the immeasurable vanity of the human adult, particularly the pedagogi...

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The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader

Says the Cardinal: "Freethought leads to Atheism, to the destruction of social and civil order, and ...

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The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader

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Voltairine de Cleyre

Writer

Born: 1866-11-17

Died: 1912-06-20

Voltairine de Cleyre (17 November 1866 – 20 June 1912) was an American anarchist and feminist writer and orator, who opposed statist policies, marriage, and the domination of religion in human sexual roles and women's opportunities. A proponent of libertarian socialism and the free thought movement, she was initially drawn to individualist anarchism but evolved into accepting mutualism and stateless communism, while formally labelling herself only an anarchist and shunning doctrinal fractiousness, believing that any system was acceptable as long as it did not involve coercive force.More