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Voltairine de Cleyre

Born

in Leslie, Michigan , The United States

November 17, 1866

Died

June 20, 1912

Website

http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_archives/b...

Genre

Politics, Philosophy, Poetry

Influences

Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, Henry David Thoreau, Dyer D. Lum ...more

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Voltairine de Cleyre was an American anarchist writer and feminist. She was a prolific writer and speaker, opposing the state, marriage, and the domination of religion in sexuality and women's lives. She began her activist career in the freethought movement. De Cleyre was initially drawn to individualist anarchism but evolved through mutualism to an "anarchism without adjectives." She believed that any system was acceptable as long as it did not involve force. However, according to anarchist author Iain McKay, she embraced the ideals of stateless communism.[1] She was a colleague of Emma Goldman, with whom she maintained a relationship of respectful disagreement on many issues. Many of her essays were in the Collected Works of Voltairine de ...more

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	The Voltairine de Cleyre Reader by Voltairine de Cleyre, A.J. Brigati (Editor) 4.04 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 2004	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre — Anarchist, Feminist, Genius by Voltairine de Cleyre, Sharon Presley (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Crispin Sartwell (Editor) 4.25 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 2005 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Selected Works Of Voltairine De Cleyre by Voltairine de Cleyre, Hippolyte Havel (Contributor), Alexander Berkman (Editor) 4.36 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1913 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Direct Action 3.95 avg rating — 64 ratings — published 2009 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Écrits d'une insoumise 4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anarşizm Ve Doğrudan Eylem 3.14 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1901	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Anarchism and American Traditions 3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1989 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sex Slavery 4.50 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2009 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Y a-t-il plus fier et libre que nous ?: Textes et poèmes anarcha-féministes by Voltairine de Cleyre, Emma Goldman (Afterword), Léa Gauthier (Translator) 4.30 avg rating — 20 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Written In Red: Selected Poems (Poets of Revolt Series) 3.67 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1990	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.”
― Voltairine de Cleyre

tags: anarchy, atheism, religion

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“If this is the price to be paid for an idea, then let us pay. There is no need of being troubled about it, afraid, or ashamed. This is the time to boldly say, “Yes, I believe in the displacement of this system of injustice by a just one; I believe in the end of starvation, exposure, and the crimes caused by them; I believe in the human soul regnant over all laws which man has made or will make; I believe there is no peace now, and there will never be peace, so long as one rules over another; I believe in the total disintegration and dissolution of the principle and practice of authority; I am an Anarchist, and if for this you condemn me, I stand ready to receive your condemnation.”
― Voltairine de Cleyre, Exquisite Rebel: The Essays of Voltairine de Cleyre — Anarchist, Feminist, Genius

tags: anarchism, anarchist, history, politics

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“Anarchism, to me, means not only the denial of authority, not only a new economy, but a revision of the principles of morality. It means the development of the individual as well as the assertion of the individual. It means self-responsibility, and not leader worship.”
― Voltairine de Cleyre

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