Haymarket affair

It is not generally considered a crime among intellectual people to be a revolutionist, but it may be made a crime if the revolutionist happens to be poor.

— Haymarket affair

If the ruling class thinks that by hanging us, hanging a few anarchists, they can crush out anarchy, they will be badly mistaken, because the anarchist loves his principles more than his life.

— Haymarket affair

Anarchy means no domination or authority of one man over another, yet you call that "disorder."

— Haymarket affair

I die happy on the gallows, so confident am I that the hundreds and thousands to whom I have spoken will remember my words; and when you shall have hanged us, then, mark my words, they will do the bomb-throwing! In this hope do I say to you: "I despise you. I despise your order; your laws; your force-propped authority." Hang me for it!

— Haymarket affair

The capitalistic system originated in the forcible seizure of natural opportunities and rights by a few, and then converting those things into special privileges which have since become vested rights, formally entrenched behind the bulwarks of statute law and government.

— Haymarket affair

Can any one feel any respect for a government that accords rights only to the privileged classes, and none to the workers?

— Haymarket affair

Anarchy is a state of society in which the only governement is reason, a state of society in which all human beings do right for the simple reason that it is right, and hate wrong because it is wrong. In such a society, no laws, no compulsion will be necessary.

— Haymarket affair