Quote#Money & Wealth
We have laws, jails, courts, armies, guns and armories enough to make…
Quote byLucy Parsons · 1851–1942
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Principles of Anarchism.
English (original)
We have laws, jails, courts, armies, guns and armories enough to make saints of us all, if they were the true preventives of crime; but we know they do not prevent crime; that wickedness and depravity exist in spite of them, nay, increase as the struggle between classes grows fiercer, wealth greater and more powerful and poverty more gaunt and desperate.
— Lucy Parsons
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