I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.
Voltairine de CleyreThere is one common struggle against those who have appropriated the earth, the money, and the machines.
Voltairine de CleyreThe question of souls is oldโwe demand our bodies, now. We are tired of promises, god is deaf, and his church is our worst enemy.
Voltairine de CleyreWhat I say is, that the real non-resistants can believe in direct action only, never in political action. For the basis of all political action is coercion; even when the State does good things, it finally rests on a club, a gun, or a prison, for its power to carry them through.
Voltairine de CleyreLet every woman ask herself: "Why am I the slave of man? Why is my brain said not to be the equal of his brain? Why is my work notpaid equally with his? Why must my body be controlled by my husband? Why may he take my labor in the household, giving me in exchange what he deems fit? Why may he take my children from me? Will them away while yet unborn?" Let every woman ask.
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