American statesman, political philosopher, and a Founding Father of the United States. He was a politician in colonial Massachusetts, a leader of the movement that became the American Revolution, and one of the architects of the principles of American republicanism that shaped the political culture of the United States. He was a second cousin to his fellow Founding Father, President John Adams. (From : Wikipedia.org.)"The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule." (Works: The Rights of the Colonists...)
American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, and author. She was an important leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage in the United States and advocated for world peace. (From : Wikipedia.org.)"A certain number of the outrages upon the spirit of youth may be traced to degenerate or careless parents who totally neglect their responsibilities..." (Works: The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets...)
Chilean-American writer. She has gained notability for her outspokenness for women's rights in Chile. The United Nations has honored her for her work on human rights. The Chilean government awarded her with the Gabriela Mistral Medal of Honor for Life Achievement in 2000. (From : Wikipedia.org.)"...under totalitarian rule an entire society must be healed." (Works: Surviving Beyond Fear...)
A worker-run collective that publishes and distributes radical books and other media to expand minds and change worlds. A half dozen of us put in long hours every week because we believe in what we do. We're anarchists, which is reflected both in the books we provide and in the way we organize our business. (From : AKPress.org.)"[AK Press Collective, 2015] Our rural areas are being fracked and monocropped into oblivion, our cities turned into playgrounds for the rich."
He was a Spanish writer, translator, and journalist of the libertarian movement. He is considered to be the first openly anarchist Spanish writer. (From : Wikipedia.org.)"...if there isn't a real response to the ignominious absence of even the most elemental liberties and right to life; if the docility continues disguising itself with words, which are simply pages to the wind; if we fail to energetically attack the origin of these problems; then we will continue to build warehouses of smoke and perhaps write a page in the martyrology, but we won't be anarchists."
Son of rationalist school-teacher and Ferrer y Guardia disciple Jos? Alberola, who served on the Council of Aragon during the civil war, Octavio sampled exile life at the age of eleven. At a very young age, in Mexico, he joined the Mexican and exiled republican anarchist groups. (From : TheKateSharpleyLibrary.net.)"We have an ideal, which will sooner or later overwhelm the capitalist system. We do not accept anything resembling statism, because all forms of statism invariably become acts of coercion."
Spanish poet, a member of the Generation of '27. He is considered one of the greatest literary figures of the so-called Silver Age of Spanish Literature, and he won numerous prizes and awards. He died aged 96. After the Spanish Civil War, he went into exile because of his Marxist beliefs. On his return to Spain after the death of Franco, he was named Hijo Predilecto de Andaluc?a in 1983 and Doctor Honoris Causa by the Universidad de C?diz in 1985. (From : Wikipedia.org.)
English novelist from the "Golden Age of Detective Fiction", and considered one of its four "Queens of Crime", alongside Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Ngaio Marsh. (From : Wikipedia.org.) (Works: Police at the Funeral...)
American politician and the 20th Governor of Illinois, serving from 1893 until 1897. He was the first Democrat to govern that state since the 1850s. A leading figure of the Progressive movement, Altgeld signed workplace safety and child labor laws, pardoned three of the men convicted in the Haymarket Affair, and rejected calls in 1894 to break up the Pullman strike by force. (From : Wikipedia.org.)"...the laboring people found the prisons always open to receive them, but the courts of justice were practically closed to them; that the prosecuting officers vied with each other in hunting them down, but were deaf to their appeals..."
The eminent historian of France, Peter H. Amann, who died June 14, 2012, lived a full and remarkable life. Born in Vienna on May 31, 1927, his father, the German intellectual Paul Amann, was an author, translator, notable correspondent, and professor at a Gymnasium in Vienna from 1911 to 1938. In 1924, he married Dora Iranyi, a concert singer, and the couple had two children, Peter Heinrich, the eldest, and Eva. (From : Historians.org.)"Save for brief intervals, has there ever been a period of modern Western society that has not been an "age of revolution"?" (Works: Eighteenth-Century Revolution...)
Italian journalist and politician, noted as an opponent of Italian Fascism. (From : Wikipedia.org.)"In all phases of history, the spiritual energy that animates a state made up of free men is incomparably greater and more productive in its effect on the internal life of a people as well as in the effect it has in international competition than is that spirit which animates a state of slaves."
A Scythian philosopher; he travelled from his homeland on the northern shores of the Black Sea, to Ancient Athens, in the early 6th century BC, and made a great impression as a forthright and outspoken barbarian, that is, a non-Greek speaker. He very well could have been a forerunner of the Cynics, in part because of his strong, but playful, parrhesia. None of his works have survived. (From : Wikipedia.org.)"...written laws, which were like spiders' webs, and would catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but easily be broken by the mighty and rich."
Anonymity, the state of an individual's identity, or personally identifiable information, being publicly unknown. (From : Wikipedia.org.)"[Anonymous group of anarcho-socialists, writing for "Epi ta Proso", 1896:] Yes, our ideas are high and noble. We have already said so and we will keep repeating it, because we want man to become what he is destined to be on earth. We want him to be totally free. Free in his will. Free in his thought. Free in respect to his peers. Free in learning. Free in love. Free from prejudice. Free from every vice, passion, habit and malice; free from plunder, theft, cruelty, lie, envy, brutality, hatred, etc.. We want him free from and not slave to money. We want him equal with all his peers. We want him equal when facing the strong. We want women to be equal to men. That is how we want man and that is what we are striving for." (Works: Anti-Clericalism in France...)
19th-century American individualist anarchist. He was an editorial assistant to Benjamin Tucker and a significant contributor to Liberty during which he gained a reputation as an exceptional writer. Appleton was a graduate of Brown University and resided in Providence, Rhode Island. He is remembered as "the most forceful critic of anarchist communism in the early 1880s". (From : Wikipedia.org.)"In short, the Anarchist asks for free land, free money, free trade, free love, and the right to free competition with the existing order at his own cost and on his own responsibility, – liberty." (Works: Anarchism, True and False...)
An American anthropologist and scholar. He was born in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard in 1931. He was exempted from his final exams by the College Dean who viewed them as "being completely unnecessary in Conrad's case" (Comitas 2000). In 1937, his doctorate dissertation titled The Irish Countryman became a college textbook. (From : Wikipedia.org.)"The more completely successful work makes a personality self-sufficing and self-governing, the more this personality tends to find its pride and joy in itself alone, in the consciousness of its own force and its own ability."
A priest involved in revolutionary, Mexican, Oaxacan politics. (From : RevoltSource.com.)"...the Church, like the state, had largely excluded the indigenous and the poor from political, economic, cultural, and social participation."
A comic playwright or comedy-writer of ancient Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy. Eleven of his forty plays survive virtually complete. These provide the most valuable examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy and are used to define it, along with fragments from dozens of lost plays by Aristophanes and his contemporaries. (From : Wikipedia.org.)"All woes shall then have ending and great Zeus the Thunderer
Shall put above what was below before.
But if the swallows squabble among themselves and fly away
Out of the temple, refusing to agree,
Then The Most Wanton Birds in all the World
They shall be named for ever." (Works: Lysistrata...)
A Greek philosopher and polymath during the Classical period in Ancient Greece. Taught by Plato, he was the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy within the Lyceum and the wider Aristotelian tradition. His writings cover many subjects including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theatre, music, rhetoric, psychology, linguistics, economics, politics, meteorology, geology, and government. (From : Wikipedia.org.)"...for the people, even if they are deceived for a time, in the end generally come to detest those who have beguiled them into any unworthy action." (Works: The Athenian Constitution...)
John Armstrong Jr. was an American soldier, diplomat and statesman who was a delegate to the Continental Congress, U.S. Senator from New York, and United States Secretary of War under President James Madison. A member of the Democratic-Republican Party, Armstrong was United States Minister to France from 1804 to 1810. (From : Wikipedia.org.)"The hacknied maxim, that trade must always regulate itself, is in our situation as impolitical as it is arrogant and absurd, and patience but scarcely restrains from bestowing upon it the severer epithets due to a possession so very ill-timed. [1780]"
An English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He was the son of Thomas Arnold, the celebrated headmaster of Rugby School, and brother to both Tom Arnold, literary professor, and William Delafield Arnold, novelist and colonial administrator. Matthew Arnold has been characterised as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues. (From : Wikipedia.org.)"Ah, love, let us be true
To one another! for the world, which seems
To lie before us like a land of dreams,
So various, so beautiful, so new,
Hath really neither joy, nor love, nor light,
Nor certitude, nor peace, nor help for pain;
And we are here as on a darkling plain
Swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight,
Where ignorant armies clash by night."
Lieutenant Governor of British Honduras from 1814 to 1822 and of Van Diemen's Land (present-day Tasmania) from 1823 to 1836. The campaign against Aboriginal Tasmanians, known as the Black War, occurred during this term of office. He later served as Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada from 1838 to 1841, and Governor of Bombay from 1842 to 1846. (From : Wikipedia.org.) (Works: Anti-Clericalism in France and England...)
The cousin of Joaqu?n Ascaso, the President of the Regional Defence Council of Aragon, a carpenter and a prominent Anarcho-syndicalist figure in Spain. (From : Wikipedia.org.)"What a pathetic bourgeoisie that needs to resort to such things to survive! But we aren't surprised. It's a war with us and of course it defends itself. It torments, exiles, and murders. After all, nothing dies without at least throwing a punch. Beasts and men are similar in this. It's unfortunate that its blows cause victims, especially when it is our brothers who fall, but it's unavoidable and we have to access the burden. Let us hope that the bourgeoisie's death throes will be brief."
Russian-born American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University. (From : Wikipedia.org.)"It is therefore dangerous to suppose that what seems familiar to us is and must be true of all the universe in all its aspects. Thus, it is only "common sense" to suppose that the earth is flat and motionless and this argument was strenuously used to oppose the notion that the earth was spherical and in motion." (Works: History of Physics...)
A journal published by working class followers of the Christian Socialist, Philippe Buchez, which appeared monthly from Sep tember, 1840 to July, 1850, with the exception of the period from February to June, 1848 when it appeared weekly. (From : Ohio.edu.)
Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, teacher, environmental activist, and inventor. Since 1961, she has published 18 books of poetry, 18 novels, 11 books of non-fiction, nine collections of short fiction, eight children's books, and two graphic novels, and a number of small press editions of both poetry and fiction. (From : Wikipedia.org.)"[Abraham Lincoln (fictional depiction):] Watch out for the leaders. First the leaders and the led, then the tyrants and the slaves, then the massacres. That's how it's always gone." (Works: Oryx and Crake...)
An American political scientist. He is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at the University of Michigan where he has been since 1974. He is best known for his interdisciplinary work on the evolution of cooperation. (From : Wikipedia.org.)"...no central authority is needed: cooperation based on reciprocity can be self-policing." (Works: Evolution of Cooperation...)
An American academic and literary critic, noted for his founding role in a movement that became known as the New Humanism, a significant influence on literary discussion and conservative thought in the period between 1910 and 1930. (From : Wikipedia.org.)
An English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and Lord Chancellor of England. Bacon led the advancement of both natural philosophy and the scientific method and his works remained influential even in the late stages of the Scientific Revolution. (From : Wikipedia.org.)"The illiberality of parents, in allowance towards their children, is an harmful error; makes them base; acquaints them with shifts; makes them sort with mean company; and makes them surfeit more when they come to plenty." (Works: The Essays...)
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