Lucy E. Parsons (1853 – 7 March 1942) was a radical American
labor organizer, anarchist, and orator. She was born in Texas,
likely as a slave, to parents of Native American, Black American
and Mexican ancestry. She often went by the name of Lucy
Gonzaleses. - 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 owners as they come out. Let
us kill them without mercy, and let it be a war of
extermination. - Statement appearing in the Chicago Tribune in
1885, as quoted in "What’s Missing From Black History Month" by
Jon Hochshartner in The Red Pheonix (10 February 2012) The
Principles of Anarchism - Governments never lead; they follow
progress. When the prison, stake or scaffold can no longer
silence the voice of the protesting minority, progress moves on
a step, but not until then. - My mind is appalled at the thought
of a political party having control of all the details that go
to make up the sum total of our lives.