Armed Force

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by AnonymousAnyone, Everyone, Whoever, How...

from The General Strike

[An Anonymous Questioner speaks] ...comrade, you have no peace now. The capitalist system, as peaceable as it is, is killing off hundreds of thousands of workers every year. That isn't peace. One hundred thousand workers were injured in this state last year. I do not care whether the revolution is peaceable or not; I want to see it come!

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by AnonymousAnyone, Everyone, Whoever, How...

from Paris Commune

[Anonymous Italian soldier] Rather than see the authorities sell my furniture, I'll risk the shots of their soldiers. (From: Chapter 2, Section 7: Paris and the National Assem....)

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by AnonymousAnyone, Everyone, Whoever, How...

from Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century

["Song of the 30-30 Carbine"] Brothers all, of plow and working implements there's only one way now: the rifle in our hands! (From: Chapter 1: Mexico, Page 1..)

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by AnonymousAnyone, Everyone, Whoever, How...

from Teaching Rebellion

["Gustavo"] It's hard to say what will happen in Oaxaca. The government keeps pushing the people away from peaceful protest towards violence. Our society is tired, wounded, and the state is pushing us to take up arms. Everyone knows that that would be terrible, that violence only leads to more violence. But what alternatives are left given the context? (From: Chapter 11: American Journalist Shot at the Calica....)

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by AnonymousAnyone, Everyone, Whoever, How...

from Tragic Week

[Ramón Escuder, random worker] It hardly seems possible that you, with rifles in your hands, would let yourselves be led off to a slaughterhouse. (From: Chapter 11: Section E: Friday, July 30, Page 269..)

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by AristophanesGreat Grandfather of Comedy, A...

from Lysistrata

LYSISTRATA: Strike, batter, knock, hit, slap, and scratch our foes, Be finely imprudent, say what you think of them....

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by Peter KropotkinRussian Anarchist, Socialist, ...

from The Commune of Paris

The revolutionary government will be a hindrance and a danger; powerless for good, formidable for ill; therefore, what is the use of having it? (From: Part III..)

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by Joan Connelly UllmanSpanish Historian and Professo...

from Tragic Week

Armed assaults upon authority...the necessary ingredient of a revolt... (From: Chapter 11: Section B: Tuesday, July 27, Page 196..)

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