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Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Heart of Angiolillo” (1898)
Some women are born to love stories as the sparks fly upward. You see it every time they glance at you, and you feel it every time they lay a finger on your sleeve. There […]
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Voltairine de Cleyre, “A Rocket of Iron” (1902)
It was one of those misty October nightfalls of the north, when the white fog creeps up from the river, and winds itself like a corpse-sheet around the black, ant-like mass of human insignificance, a […]
The Sex Question
Voltairine De Cleyre, “Sunday Schools and Social Intercourse Among Liberals” (1890)
For the Boston Investigator. SUNDAY SCHOOLS AND SOCIAL INTERCOURSE AMONG LIBERALS Mr. Editor:—Among the many wants of the Free Thought movement is a much wider social intercourse than exists at present, a much more extensive […]
Anarchist Beginnings
J. Wm. Lloyd, “Prayer of the Governmentalist” (1886)
For Lucifer Prayer of the Governmentalist. Our Government which is in Washington—hallowed be thy name! May thy Kingdom become, and thy will be done, in America even as the Czar’s is in Russia! Give us […]
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Voltairine de Cleyre, “The Old Shoemaker” (1896), with note and response
The Old Shoemaker He had lived a long time there, in the house at the end of the alley, and no one had ever known that he was a great man. He was lean and […]
The Sex Question
“Voltairine De Cleyre at Greensburg” (1893)
For the Boston Investigator. VOLTAIRINE DE CLEYRE AT GREENSBURG. Mr. Editor:—In the little city of Greensburg, some thirty miles east of Pittsburgh, there are a few brave, strong souls who are making war on God […]
The Sex Question
“Justice and Jehovah” (1888)
“JUSTICE AND JEHOVAH.” The Address of Miss Voltairine De Cleyre Before the Cleveland Secular Union Miss Voltairine De Cleyre of Grand Rapids addressed the Secular union in the Memorial hall last evening on the subject […]
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Voltairine De Cleyre, “The Woman’s National Liberty Union” (1890)
THE WOMAN’S NATIONAL LIBERAL UNION Mr. Editor:—Hereafter let it not be said that the women of American are behind their brothers in the work of freeing the country from superstition’s shackles. The most radical organization […]
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Joseph A. Labadie, “The Meaning of Anarchy” (1896)
The Meaning of Anarchy. This is a good time, it seems, to enter a protest. You have heard, no doubt, the expression of being killed by kindness. Well, I am not exactly being killed by […]
Anarchist Beginnings
J. Wm. Lloyd, “A Free Socialist” (1895)
My statement that henceforth I was no Anarchist, but a Free Socialist, was intended to refer to my public profession. Having stated that my view of Anarchism was that it was the doctrine “that the invasion of one human being by another was in the highest degree wrong, foolish, dangerous, and inexpedient—that this was Anarchism and this only,” and having, in conclusion, stated that my renunciation of the name Anarchist did “not mean any change of views,” it, of course, follows that, although I reject the name Anarchist, I, in my heart, still regard myself as one.