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“There is no doubt but that power is latently in you; there is no doubt it can be developed; there is no doubt the authorities know this and feat it, and are ready to exert as much force as is necessary to repress any signs of its development. And this is the explanation of Emma Goldman’s imprisonment. [or any other political prisoner for that matter]. The authorities do not fear you as you are; they only fear what you may become…. Why so much fear? Did hey shrink from the stab of the dressmakers needle? Or did they dread some stronger weapon? The spirit which animates Emma Goldman is the only one which will emancipate the slave from [their] slavery, the tyrant from [their] tyranny – the spirit which is willing to dare and suffer.”
– Voltairine de Cleyre (1893)
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