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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...more

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If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.

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People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

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I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand ...more

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Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.

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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot...more

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[M]an has as much liberty as he is willing to take.

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A thorough investigation would prove that nine crimes out of ten could be traced, directly or indirectly, to our economic and social iniquities, to ou...more

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But what about human nature? Can it be changed? And if not, will it endure under Anarchism?Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed...more

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The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful citizen is he who g...more

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Love is it's own protection.

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I have often been asked why I maintained such a non-compromising antagonism to government and in what way I have found myself oppressed by it. In my o...more

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I consider Anarchism the most beautiful and practical philosophy that has yet been thought of in its application to individual expression and the rela...more

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Every society has the criminals it deserves.

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Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based upon fear and hop...more