A Loving Anarchist! The Spirit of Voltairine de Cleyre Quotes

“Each choose that method which expresses your selfhood best, and condemn no other man because he expresses his Self otherwise.”
― Voltairine de Cleyre, A Loving Anarchist! The Spirit of Voltairine de Cleyre

“We in America never knew the village commune. White Civilization struck our shores in a broad tide-sheet and swept over the country inclusively; among us was never seen the little commune growing up from a state of barbarism independently, out of primary industries, and maintaining itself within itself. There was no gradual change from the mode of life of the native people to our own; there was a wiping out and a complete transplantation of the latest form of European civilization.”
― Voltairine de Cleyre, A Loving Anarchist! The Spirit of Voltairine de Cleyre

“No matter: Man always hopes; Life always hopes. When a definite object cannot be outlined, the indomitable spirit of hope still impels the living mass to move toward something--something that shall somehow be better. What”
― Voltairine de Cleyre, A Loving Anarchist! The Spirit of Voltairine de Cleyre

“Every Anarchist, as an Anarchist, would be perfectly willing to surrender his own scheme directly, if he saw that another worked better. For”
― Voltairine de Cleyre, A Loving Anarchist! The Spirit of Voltairine de Cleyre

“The idea of the little commune, therefore, comes instinctively to the Anarchists of Europe, – particularly the continental ones; with them it is merely the conscious development of a submerged instinct. With Americans it is an importation. I”
― Voltairine de Cleyre, A Loving Anarchist! The Spirit of Voltairine de Cleyre

“Those who wear out in faith and energy, and take to easy chairs and soft living;”
― Voltairine de Cleyre, A Loving Anarchist! The Spirit of Voltairine de Cleyre