“And now, what has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on the ruins of our early freedom? We say this, that the sin our fathers sinned was that they did not trust liberty wholly. They thought it possible to compromise between liberty and government, believing the latter to be “a necessary evil,” and the moment the compromise was made, the whole misbegotten monster of our present tyranny began to grow. Instruments which are set up to safeguard rights become the very whip with which the free are struck.”
Voltairine de Cleyre (via anarchei)
“Youth revolt is not necessarily a panacea; neither is it necessarily the precursor of social revolution; rather a grim-humoured reaction to the frustration in this society and this manner of living. It is one of the few things in this society worth serious defence and support. I welcome youth’s rage: I share it. I support it because I wish for explosions infinitely more brain-peeling than in their wildest, most socially profane dreams.”
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