The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
If I can’t dance to it, it’s not my revolution.
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul.
People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.
We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens.
I don’t care if a man’s theory for tomorrow is correct, I care if his spirit of today is correct.
Religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution – Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass.
Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty…
Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.
The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?… With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?
