“It is the moving inspiration of our age, the only question worth struggling for: the question of how to lift humanity from poverty and despair.” InspirationHumanityPovertyStruggle Author:Lucy Parsons
“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
“The overseer’s whip is now fully supplanted by the lash of hunger! And the auction block by the chain-gang and convict cell” PovertyRacismSlaveryPrisonHungerSouthern United StatesSouthern UsaBlack Codes 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
“Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals. We look away from government for relief, because we know that force (legalized) invades the personal liberty of man, seizes upon the natural elements and intervenes between man and natural laws; from this exercise of force through governments flows nearly all the misery, poverty, crime and confusion existing in society.” ThinkingKnowsMenBelieveLooksLongSelfGovernmentLawPoliticalIndividualForceNaturalLibertyPovertyCrimeDevelopmentPeriodsExerciseElementsFlowVoteFundamentalsMiseryCampaignsConfusionReliefAnarchismAnarchistBeggingNatural LawPolitical CampaignPersonal LibertyChanges In SocietyNatural Elements Author:Lucy Parsons
