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 c…

- Voltairine De Cleyre

[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 …

- Voltairine De Cleyre

I think it can be shown that the law makes ten criminals where it restrains one.

- Voltairine De Cleyre

There is no society for the prevention of cruelty to women.

- Voltairine De Cleyre

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 free…

- Voltairine De Cleyre

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.

- Voltairine De Cleyre

I die, as I have lived, a free spirit, an Anarchist, owing no allegiance to rulers, heavenly or earthly.

- Voltairine De Cleyre

If the believers in liberty wish the principles of liberty taught, let them never intrust that instruction to any government; for the nature of gover…

- Voltairine De Cleyre

Let every woman ask herself: "Why am I the slave of man? Why is my brain said not to be the equal of his brain? Why is my work notpaid equally with h…

- Voltairine De Cleyre