"The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays," by Nestor Makhno, edited by Alexandre Skirda, published by AK Press, 1996, page 52. "'Soviet' Power -- Its Present and Its Future," Bor'ba (The Struggle), Paris, No. 19-20, 25 October 1931, W-2-3. ""Soviet" power is a power no better and no worse than any other. Currently, it is every bit as wobbly and absurd as any State power in general."
"'Thou Shalt Not Kill'," by Leo Tolstoy, August 8, o.s., 1900. "That nations should not be oppressed, and that there should be none of these useless wars, and that men may not be indignant with those who seem to cause these evils, and may not kill them -- it seems that only a very small thing is necessary. It is necessary that men should understand things as they are, should call them by their right names, and should know that an army is an instrument for killing, and that the enrollment and management of an army -- the very things which Kings, Emperors, and Presidents occupy themselves with so self-confidently -- is a preparation for murder."
"The Struggle Against the State and Other Essays," by Nestor Makhno, edited by Alexandre Skirda, published by AK Press, 1996, page 70. "The ABC of the Revolutionary Anarchist," Probuzdeniye, No. 18, Jan. 1931, pp. 57-63, and no. 19-20, Feb.-March 1932, pp. 16-20. "When healthy reasoning and love of oneself and of others alike gain the ascendancy in life, man will become the authentic author of his own existence."
"Abortion in the United States," by Margaret Sanger, May 1914. Source: The Woman Rebel, Vol. 1, No. 3, May 1914, 24, Margaret Sanger Microfilm C16:0538.
"About My Trial: Class Struggle or Class Hatred?," Errico Malatesta, (Umanit? Nova, n. 137, September 20, 1921). "If the proletariat gave and gives so many heroes and martyrs of the cause of human redemption, it also gives off the white guards, the slaughterers, the traitors of their own brothers, without which the bourgeois tyranny could not last a single day."
"The Abraham Lincoln Brigade," by Arthur H. Landis, Citadel Press, New York, 1967. "[Only a handful of officers attempted further assistance, and they were immediately subdued. Captain Milton Wolff took harsh measures with the young commander.]
"He was a real snob," Wolff states. "He was arrogant as all hell. He wanted, and actually demanded, special treatment as apart from his men. I gave it to him. I booted his ass down the side of that hill in full view of his troops -- and I'm sure they appreciated it.""
"Address to Pennsylvania Birth Control Leagues," by Margaret Sanger, 27 Feb 1929. Source: Margaret Sanger Papers, Library of Congress, LCM 128:446. "I have one test of intelligence and that is the attitude of the man or woman on birth control, as that is the real test of intelligence."
"Address to the International Working Man's Association Congress," by Emma Goldman, Emma Goldman Papers, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. "I still feel the same abhorrence of militarism, its dehumanization, its brutality and its power to turn men into automatons."
"African Anarchism: The History of a Movement," by Sam Mbah and I.E. Igariway, See Sharp Press, Tucson, Arizona, 1997. "Viable socialist communities can only be established with willing members."
"Africa: A Biography of the Continent," by John Reader, Vintage Books, New York, 1997. "There would be much fruit and much more cultivation in the country, if the great men did not ill-treat the people."
"After Makhno: Hidden Histories of Anarchism in the Ukraine," by Anatoly V. Dubovik and D.I. Rublyov, translated by Szarapow, published by the Kate Sharpley Library, 2009. "It’s not the first time that the furious slave-owners try to make short work of the slaves who realize the tasks that lie ahead of them. There’s no government in the world, be it fascist, democratic or Soviet, the hands of which wouldn’t be stained with blood of conscious anarchist proletarians but no amount of terror will ever stop the coming revolution, or weaken the workers’ will to fight."
"Against the Constituent Assembly as Against the Dictatorship," by Errico Malatesta, (Adunata, October 4, 1930). "Practical proposals are coming from various sides. They are all good to me, if they appeal to free initiative and to a spirit of solidarity and justice, and tend to take individuals away from the domination of the government and the master."
"The Age of Enlightenment: A History from Beginning to End," by Hourly History, 2016. "Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
"Agitation and Agitators," by Eugene V. Debs, Unsigned article attributed to Debs, published in Locomotive Firemen?s Magazine (Terre Haute, IN), v. 14, no. 8 (August 1890), pp. 712-713. "The employer wants quiet, stagnation; wants to be let severely alone. The agitator won't have it so. At the bottom of the labor question there exists a wrong of incalculable enormity. The labor agitator seeks to unearth it — to lay it bare, to expose it to the gaze of the world and exterminate it."
Agrarian Justice, by Thomas Paine. "Civilization, therefore, or that which is so-called, has operated two ways: to make one part of society more affluent, and the other more wretched, than would have been the lot of either in a natural state."
"Alas, Babylon," by Pat Frank, Harper Perennial, New York, London, Toronto, Sydney, 1959. "On any night, if you listened for a while, you could hear the B-52's and 47's and 58's, but on this night there seemed to be more of them."
"All Together -- Now!," by Margaret Sanger, Oct 1918. Source: Birth Control Review Oct. 1918, 7 , Margaret Sanger Microfilm S70:801. "...for every woman jailed, we will raise up ten women to devote their lives to this fight for free womanhood."
"The Almost Perfect Crime: The Misrepresentation of Portuguese Anarchism," J?lio Carrapato, Kate Sharpley Library, 2004. "My greatest hatred, my liveliest repugnance are reserved for the bourgeois masters who exploit us and whom we shame-facedly serve."
"Americans are 'Headline Thinkers,'" by Margaret Sanger, January 3, 1926. Source: Margaret Sanger Papers, Library of Congress , LCM 128:356. "Birth Control does not mean no children. It means bringing into the world only such children as are wanted by healthy parents."
"American Trade Union Democracy," by William M. Leiserson, with a Foreword by Sumner H. Slichter, Columbia University Press, 1959. "...our familiar political bosses, business barons, and labor bosses are brothers under the skin."
"An American View of the Congress," by Lucien Sanial, Source: Justice, August 22, 1896. "...shall we, working men of England and America, allow ourselves to be ground to dust that a few mean plutocrats may say, "The world is ours"?"
"Among the Coal-Miners," by Margaret Blake Robinson, New York, Editor of the Herald of Light, Scanned from Missionary Review 1902, Vol. 25, pp. 835-39. "The true reformer must be an individual seeker, and his "personal work" must not consist merely in teaching, but must also be full of brotherly sympathy, free from bigotry and cant, ready to concede a point often, willing to be patient, ready to look at things from the other man's point of view, and full of the love such as Jesus had when He had compassion on the multitudes."
"Analects of Confucius," by Confucius, circa 470 BC, with a translation, critical and exegetical notes, prolegomena, and copious indexes by James Legge. "If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret."
"Anarchism and American Traditions," by Voltairine de Cleyre, issued By The International Anarchist Publishing Committee of America, Chicago: Free Society Group, 1932. "Where industry is everything, where labor loses its ethical importance and man is nothing, there begins the realm of ruthless economic despotism, whose workings are no less disastrous than those of any political despotism."
"Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism," by Rudolph Rocker. "...economic exploitation has always gone hand in hand with political and social oppression. The exploitation of man by man and the domination of man over man are inseparable, and each is the condition of the other."
"Anarchism and Organization," Authored by Errico Malatesta, 1897. "...the age-long oppression of the masses by a small privileged group has always been the result of the inability of the oppressed to agree among themselves to organize with others for production, for enjoyment and for the possible needs of defense against whoever might wish to exploit and oppress them. Anarchism exists to remedy this state of affairs..."
"Anarchism and Revolution," by Peter Kropotkin, date unknown. "...if it is desirable that a person setting to work should not enthralled himself, should not give up part of his labor, his strength, his independence, either temporarily or permanently, to private individuals whose arbitary power will always determine how great that part shall be, then it is necessary that private individuals should control neither the instruments of labor (tools, machines, factories), nor the places of cultivation of raw materials (the earth), nor the raw materials previously stored up, nor the means of storing and transporting them to particular places (the means of communication, warehouses, and so on), nor the means of existence during work (the supplies of the means of subsistence and housing)."
"Anarchism and the City: Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Barcelona, 1898-1937," by Chris Ealham, AK Press, Oakland, Edinburgh, Baltimore, 2010. "The republican police is like the monarchist police, just as republican tyranny is the same as that of the monarchy. The police is unchanged, nor will it change. Its mission was, is, and will continue to be the persecution of workers and the poor."
"Anarchism," by Peter Kropotkin, from the Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1910. "Anarchism, the name given to a principle or theory of life and conduct under which society is conceived without government - harmony in such a society being obtained, not by submission to law, or by obedience to any authority, but by free agreements concluded between the various groups, territorial and professional, freely constituted for the sake of production and consumption, as also for the satisfaction of the infinite variety of needs and aspirations of a civilized being."
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