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The War Hysteria and Our Protest – Leonard D. Abbott (1917)

“War inevitably means the steam-roller. It means crushing out every spark of initiative, of independence of mind.”

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Observations and Comments on the Vote – Emma Goldman (1915)

“To perpetuate stupidity and ignorance, nothing could be invented more effective than the Vote.”

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The Echo from Erin – W. S. Van Valkenburgh (1916)

“The heartlessness of the Government’s hasty reprisal is indicative of its sincerity in the stand that small nations must be guaranteed their freedom.”

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First Year of the War – Emma Goldman (1915)

“Half a dozen great nations have been engaged in killing and trying to kill each other as quickly as possible, and the resources of science have been utilized to the utmost in fashioning the most diabolical weapons of war that the human mind could imagine.”

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Correspondence on Kropotkin’s Letter to Professor Steffen – Fred W. Dunn (1914)

“It seems to me that our attitude is not to say who shall dominate in certain areas, but to put an end to domination in every area.”

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Have the Leopards Changed Their Spots? – Thomas H. Keell (1914)

“To safeguard their power to exploit the peoples — black, white, or yellow — they were quite prepared to make a slaughter-house of Europe.”