So many able writers have shown that the unjust institutions which work so much misery and suffering to the masses have their root in governments, an…

- Lucy Parsons

We must devastate the avenues where the wealthy live

- Lucy Parsons

If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be fou…

- Lucy Parsons

Strike not for a few cents more an hour, because the price of living will be raised faster still, but strike for all you earn, be content with nothin…

- Lucy Parsons

Can you not see that it is the INDUSTRIAL SYSTEM and not the boss which must be changed?.

- Lucy Parsons

The coming change can only come through a revolution, because the possessing class will not allow a peaceful change to take place; still we are willi…

- Lucy Parsons

Let every dirty, lousy tramp arm himself with a revolver or a knife, and lay in wait on the steps of the palaces of the rich and stab or shoot the ow…

- Lucy Parsons

Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor …

- Lucy Parsons

Concentrated power can be always wielded in the interest of the few and at the expense of the many. Government in its last analysis is this power red…

- Lucy Parsons