
Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays Chapter 3 - The Psychology of Political Violence
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Is There a Right to Judge?
The explosion of my bomb is not only the cry of the rebel vallant, but the cry of an entire class which vindicates its rights. For be sure of it, in vain will they pass laws. The ideas of the thinkers will not halt. I conclude by saying that a society in which one sees such social inequalities as we see all about us must be transformed on pain of being eliminated from the human race. Hail to him who labors by no matter what means for this transformation. It is this idea that has guided me in my duel with authority. But as in this duel i have only wounded my adversary, it is now its turn to strike me.
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