Voltairine de Cleyre Quote

“The revolution is ... the blow dealt ... against the counter force of tyranny, which has never entirely recovered from the blow, but which from then till now has gone on remolding and regrappling the instruments of governmental power, that the Revolution sought to shape and hold as defenses of liberty.”

~ Voltairine de Cleyre

"Anarchism and American Traditions," Mother Earth, 1909; reproduced in William Bonner and Pierre Lemieux (Eds.), The Idea of America (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 2003), p. 223.

Ratings and Comments


E Archer, NYC

In other words, every revolution against tyranny is never really finished...

jim k, Austin

Ours started in the 1770's and continues to this day.

Mike, Norwalk

Archer and jim, said well

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