"Not only my arrest but the others smack of the Haymarket. The police are very much in disrepute all over the country, and they wish to do something to...

So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe.
~ Emma Goldman ~












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