Voltairine de Cleyre

Posted on 2010-11-26 by Webbgruppen — 3 Comments ↓

Så länge folket inte bryr sig om att utöva sin frihet, kommer de som vill tyrannisera göra det; för tyranner är aktiva och flitiga, och kommer göra så i gudars namn, religiösa eller andra, för att snärja sovande människor. Anarchism & American Traditions, 1908

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‹ Johann Wolfgang von Göthe

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3 comments on “Voltairine de Cleyre”

1. Jonas Liljegren says:

   2010-11-27 at 19:11

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   What has Anarchism to say to all this, this bankruptcy of republicanism, this modern empire that has grown up on the ruins of our early freedom? We say this, that the sin our fathers sinned was that they did not trust liberty wholly. They thought it possible to compromise between liberty and government, believing the latter to be “a necessary evil,” and the moment the compromise was made, the whole misbegotten monster of our present tyranny began to grow. Instruments which are set up to safeguard rights become the very whip with which the free are struck.
   Anarchism says, Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that “freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license”; and they will define and define freedom out of existence. Let the guarantee of free speech be in every man’s determination to use it, and we shall have no need of paper declarations. On the other hand, so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.

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2. Emetsrasprark says:

   2011-06-17 at 07:01

   vad jag letade efter, tack

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   • Josef Boberg says:

     2011-06-18 at 10:43

     Lösningen

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