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A Loving Anarchist! The Spirit of Voltairine de Cleyre (The Anarchy Classic!) QUOTES

A Loving Anarchist! The Spirit of Voltairine de Cleyre (The Anarchy Classic!) QUOTES

1 " Each choose that method which expresses your selfhood best, and condemn no other man because he expresses his Self otherwise. "

― Voltairine de Cleyre , A Loving Anarchist! The Spirit of Voltairine de Cleyre (The Anarchy Classic!)

2 " We in America never knew the village commune. White Civilization struck our shores in a broad tide-sheet and swept over the country inclusively; among us was never seen the little commune growing up from a state of barbarism independently, out of primary industries, and maintaining itself within itself. There was no gradual change from the mode of life of the native people to our own; there was a wiping out and a complete transplantation of the latest form of European civilization. "

― Voltairine de Cleyre , A Loving Anarchist! The Spirit of Voltairine de Cleyre (The Anarchy Classic!)

3 " No matter: Man always hopes; Life always hopes. When a definite object cannot be outlined, the indomitable spirit of hope still impels the living mass to move toward something--something that shall somehow be better. What "

― Voltairine de Cleyre , A Loving Anarchist! The Spirit of Voltairine de Cleyre (The Anarchy Classic!)

4 " The idea of the little commune, therefore, comes instinctively to the Anarchists of Europe, – particularly the continental ones; with them it is merely the conscious development of a submerged instinct. With Americans it is an importation. I "

― Voltairine de Cleyre , A Loving Anarchist! The Spirit of Voltairine de Cleyre (The Anarchy Classic!)

5 " Every Anarchist, as an Anarchist, would be perfectly willing to surrender his own scheme directly, if he saw that another worked better. For "

― Voltairine de Cleyre , A Loving Anarchist! The Spirit of Voltairine de Cleyre (The Anarchy Classic!)

6 " Those who wear out in faith and energy, and take to easy chairs and soft living; "

― Voltairine de Cleyre , A Loving Anarchist! The Spirit of Voltairine de Cleyre (The Anarchy Classic!)