There Is No Peace Now, And There

And Now, 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.

[the Married Woman Is] Is A Bonded Slave, Who Takes Her Master's Name, Her Master's Bread, And Serves Her Master's Passion; [and] Who Passes Through The Ordeal Of Pregnancy And The Throes Of Travail At His Dictation.

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.

If You Choose The Liberty And Pride And Strength Of The Single Soul, And The Free Fraternization Of Men, As The Purpose Which Your Life Is To Make Manifest Then Do Not Sell It For Tinsel. Think That Your Soul Is Strong And Will Hold Its Way; And Slowly, Through Bitter Struggle Perhaps The Strength Will Grow.

This Is What The Government Is, Has Always Been, The Creator And Defender Of Privilege; The Organization Of Oppression And Revenge. To Hope That It Can Ever Become Anything Else Is The Vainest Of Delusions. They Tell You That Anarchy, The Dream Of Social Order Without Government, Is A Wild Fancy. The Wildest Dream That Ever Entered The Heart Of Man Is The Dream That Mankind Can Ever Help Itself Through An Appeal To Law, Or To Come To Any Order That Will Not Result In Slavery Wherein There Is Any Excuse For Government.