“Let the masses understand that these robbers hold this property (which is so much unpaid labor) under the plea of the laws which they themselves [the robbers] have made, and by the sanction of the very men they have locked out to starve.” LawPovertyPropertyLawsClass War Author:Lucy Parsons
“We have laws, jails, courts, armies, guns and armories enough to make saints of us all, if they were the true preventives of crime; but we know they do not prevent crime; that wickedness and depravity exist in spite of them, nay, increase as the struggle between classes grows fiercer, wealth greater and more powerful and poverty more gaunt and desperate.” WealthPovertyPowerCrimeGunsLawsClass StruggleClass WarArmiesJails Author:Lucy Parsons
“when the proletariat, failing to see the justice of this bourgeois economy, begins to murmur, the policeman’s club is called into active service.” JusticePolicePolice BrutalityProletariatBourgeoisieClass WarPolice Violence Author:Lucy Parsons
“Give them to understand that you will not stand patiently by and see your hard earnings squandered by a luxuriating class of idlers.” WealthyWorking ClassClass War Author:Lucy Parsons
