
Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays Chapter 3 - The Psychology of Political Violence
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Henry Clay Frick's Murder
Alexander burkman was an anarchist. He gloried in that fact, because it was the only force that made the discord between his spiritual longing and the world without at all bearable. The brutal slaughter of the 11 steel workers was the urge for alexander Burkman's act. There comes a time when the people no longer reason. They rise like a hurricane and pass away like a torrent. Then we see bleeding heads impaled on pikes among the exploited. For woe be to those who remain deaf to the cries of the starving. Woe to those who, believing themselves of superior essence, assume the right to exploit those beneath them.
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