“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
“are you not slaves to the money power as much as were the black slaves to the Southern slaveholders? Then we ask you again: What are you going to do about it? You had the ballot then. Could you have voted away black slavery? You know you could not because the slaveholders would not hear of such a thing for the same reason you can’t vote yourselves out of wage-slavery.” MoneyPowerSlaveryVotingVoting RightsWage Slavery Author:Lucy Parsons
“Concentrated power can be always wielded in the interest of the few and at the expense of the many. Government in its last analysis is this power reduced to a science. Governments never lead; they follow progress. When the prison, stake or scaffold can no longer silence the voice of the protesting minority, progress moves on a step, but not until then.” GovernmentLastsMovingVoiceInterestSilenceStepsPowerStruggleProgressPrisonAnalysisMinoritiesExpensesStakes Author:Lucy Parsons
