“Washington dispatches troops to the border of Mexico, ready to interfere any moment.”
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“It was demonstrated during the trial that all safety requirements were entirely ignored by the bosses. The owners of the factory were concerned solely with the question of profits.”
“Future historians will wonder at the peculiar phenomenon of American war psychology…”
“Let us realize more and more clearly that the war worth fighting is not between countries, but between ideals of life.”
“Man, with all his intellect and sagacity, has chiefly succeeded in marring the very coating of the earth with the bleached corpuscles of his own sons.”
“Therefore, how futile it is for an Anarchist above all to take sides with any government. He not only discredits himself with his comrades but he places himself in a ridiculous position with those whose side he adheres to.”
“How can that break down which has not been built up? How can that become debauched which already is debauched and debauching?”
“There are many who perceive that they have been tricked out of their homes and jobs by a cheap phraseology, the emptiness and deception of which they now feel keenly enough.”
“War inevitably means the steam-roller. It means crushing out every spark of initiative, of independence of mind.”
“To perpetuate stupidity and ignorance, nothing could be invented more effective than the Vote.”
“The heartlessness of the Government’s hasty reprisal is indicative of its sincerity in the stand that small nations must be guaranteed their freedom.”
“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.”
“In other words, Kropotkin’s emotions for France lead him to sustain the schemes of Czarism.”
“Stupid error of a maddened bourgeoisie! The death of an agitator does not put an end to discontent.”
“Life must never become a habit, you said. It must be a triumph, it must be a consecration.”
“So in opposing war, he is no more a non-resistant than the opportunist revolutionist.”
“That the spirit of perverse cruelty to persecute and humiliate human beings for no other offence except that they lead their own lives, is making itself felt even today, no one familiar with the activity of our moral censors can possibly deny.”
“… the United States Government perpetrates outrages in Santo Domingo and Haiti of the same nature.”
“How different is it with us! Because we stand for the people; because we wish to see them in possession of the necessaries of life and do not want them cheated with fine words…”
“On with the struggle! On with expropriation, for the benefit of all and not of the few!”
“A world of thoughts, feelings and passions like a hurricane opened up before my mental eye.”
“…the British militarists in Ireland knew well what they were doing — they were killing the two men who were the coolest, the most intelligent, and the most resolute enemies of oppression alive in Ireland.”
