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Lucy Parsons Quotes

«Anarchism has but one infallible, unchangeable motto, 'Freedom.' Freedom to discover any truth, freedom to develop, to live naturally and fully.»
Author: Lucy Parsons | About: Anarchy, Freedom, Truth
«Oh, Misery, I have drunk thy cup of sorrow to its dregs, but I am still a rebel.»
Author: Lucy Parsons | About: Revolution, Sorrow
«Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals.»
Author: Lucy Parsons | About: Anarchy, Education, Voting
«So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments, and owe their whole existence to the power derived from government we cannot help but believe that were every law, every title deed, every court, and every police officer or soldier abolished tomorrow with one sweep, we would be better off than now.»
Author: Lucy Parsons | About: Anarchy, Misery, Police
«If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be found who stand aloof and almost alone in their determination to work for good rather than gold, who suffer want and persecution rather than desert principle, who can bravely walk to the scaffold for the good they can do humanity, what may we expect from men when freed from the grinding necessity of selling the better part of themselves for bread?»
Author: Lucy Parsons | About: Humanity, Labor