Voltairine de Cleyre Quotes about Liberty

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I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

I never expect men to give us liberty. No, women, we are not worth it until we take it.

Men, Giving, Liberty

Eugenia C. DeLamotte, Voltairine De Cleyre (2004). “Gates of Freedom: Voltairine de Cleyre and the Revolution of the Mind”, p.249, University of Michigan Press

Speak, speak, speak, & remember that whenever anyone's liberty to speak is denied, your liberty is denied also, & your place is where the attack is.

Voltairine de Cleyre

Liberty, Remember, Speak

A man won't steal, ordinarily, unless that which he steals is something he cannot as easily get without stealing; in liberty the cost of stealing would involve greater difficulties than producing, and consequently he would not be apt to steal.

Voltairine de Cleyre

Men, Liberty, Cost

"The Economic Tendency of Freethought". Liberty, Volume XI, #25, praxeology.net. February 15, 1890.

The revolution is ... the blow dealt ... agains the counter force of tyranny, which has never entirely recovered from the blow, but which from then till now has gone on remolding and regrappling the instruments of governmental power, that the Revolution sought to shape and hold as defenses of liberty.

Voltairine de Cleyre

Blow, Liberty, Revolution

Voltairine De Cleyre (1989). “Anarchism and American Traditions”, p.3, Library of Alexandria