Alexander Berkman

If your object is to secure liberty, you must learn to do without authority and compulsion.

No political rights can be of the least use to the man who is compelled to slave all his life to keep himself and family from starvation.

Liberty is an empty sound as long as you are kept in bondage economically.

It is the system, rather than individuals, that is the source of pollution and degradation. My prison-house environment is but another manifestation of the Midas-hand, whose cursed touch turns everything to the brutal service of Mammon.

"Man's inhumanity to man" is not the last word. The truth lies deeper. It is economic slavery, the savage struggle for a crumb, that has converted mankind into wolves and sheep.