Frases de Lucy Parsons

Lucy Eldine González Parsons foi uma notável anarquista estadunidense que em sua infância no sul dos Estados Unidos fora escrava, mais tarde em sua vida aderiu ao movimento operário sendo uma das mais respeitadas oradoras de sua época. Foi também cônjuge de Albert Parsons, um dos libertários mártires da revolta de Haymarket em 1886.

Teve também um papel importante na fundação da organização sindical Industrial Workers of the World ao lado de Daniel De Leon, Eugene V. Debs, "Mother" Mary Harris Jones, William Trautmann, Vincent Saint John, Ralph Chaplin, entre outros.

Ao longo de sua vida deu forma a uma biblioteca de mais de 1.500 publicações que logo após seu falecimento em um incêndio seria apreendida junto com todos seus escritos pessoais por agentes do governo. É considerada por muitos libertários estadunidenses ainda hoje uma das anarquistas mais influentes de seu tempo. Wikipedia  

✵ 1853 – 7. Março 1942
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Lucy Parsons: Frases em inglês

“Who, pray, are benefiting by all this waste and confusion? The dew, a mere small percentage of the population of the world. All the remainder submit, because they think "it always has been so and it must always be so."”

The work of those who have a conception of a true society of the future, must devote all their efforts towards disabusing the people's minds of the ancient false hoods. It can be done. Many other hoary lies have passed away, so will this one, too.

"Property Rights vs. Human Rights" (Nov. 1905)

“Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals.”

The Principles of Anarchism
Contexto: Anarchists know that a long period of education must precede any great fundamental change in society, hence they do not believe in vote begging, nor political campaigns, but rather in the development of self-thinking individuals.
We look away from government for relief, because we know that force (legalized) invades the personal liberty of man, seizes upon the natural elements and intervenes between man and natural laws; from this exercise of force through governments flows nearly all the misery, poverty, crime and confusion existing in society.

“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.”

The Principles of Anarchism
Contexto: 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. Think of it for an instant, that the party in power shall have all authority to dictate the kind of books that shall be used in our schools and universities, government officials editing, printing, and circulating our literature, histories, magazines and press, to say nothing of the thousand and one activities of life that a people engage in, in a civilized society.

“The philosophy of anarchism is included in the word "Liberty"; yet it is comprehensive enough to include all things else that are conducive to progress.”

The Principles of Anarchism
Contexto: The philosophy of anarchism is included in the word "Liberty"; yet it is comprehensive enough to include all things else that are conducive to progress. No barriers whatever to human progression, to thought, or investigation are placed by anarchism; nothing is considered so true or so certain, that future discoveries may not prove it false; therefore, it has but one infallible, unchangeable motto, "Freedom." Freedom to discover any truth, freedom to develop, to live naturally and fully. Other schools of thought are composed of crystallized ideas — principles that are caught and impaled between the planks of long platforms, and considered too sacred to be disturbed by a close investigation. In all other "issues" there is always a limit; some imaginary boundary line beyond which the searching mind dare not penetrate, lest some pet idea melt into a myth. But anarchism is the usher of science — the master of ceremonies to all forms of truth. It would remove all barriers between the human being and natural development.

“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 Phoenix (10 February 2012) http://theredphoenixapl.org/2012/02/10/whats-missing-from-black-history-month/

“Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.”

Lucy Parsons: Freedom, Equality & Solidarity - Writings & Speeches, 1878-1937

“Oh, working man! Oh, starved, outraged, and robbed laborer, how long will you lend attentive ear to the authors of your misery? When will you become tired of your slavery and show the same by stepping boldly into the arena with those who declare that "Not to be a slave is to dare and DO?"”

When will you tire of such a civilization and declare in words, the bitterness of which shall not be mistaken, "Away with a civilization that thus degrades me; it is not worth the saving?"

"Our Civilization: Is It Worth Saving?" (1885)