“Parliamentarism is the art of making sufferers have patience eternally.”
Category: Louise Michel
“But it could be summed up in a single act of will by the people, who are shackled in that they are made to believe they are free!”
“There was a clear atmosphere, a splendid dawn like an aurora of deliverance. We knew well though we died, Paris would rise.”
“Were I not an Anarchist of long standing, the Parliamentarian Congress in London would have made me one…”
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Prison Song – Louise Michel (1898)
“In the struggles to come, one will not find such generous scruples any more, because with each popular defeat, the crowd is bled like the beasts of the slaughterhouse; what one will find, will be implacable duty.”
