Oh Freedom, subtle deceiver, what chains are forged and riveted in thy Name.
The Freewoman, Volume 1 Number 1, June 15th 1913
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6 So the patient advocates of “free states,” “free speech,” “free assemblage,” what are they but deluded children in the vicinity of forces they do not comprehend? If they want to assemble and speak without let or hindrance, let them increase their own power, their strength of arm until they can speak and meet as they will. But to ask for free speech and free meeting, what is it but an acknowledgement of tutelage, inferiority.
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3 “Freedom” presumes a state and there is no state of being free; there is an activity of free-ing but the activity is limited by time to the duration of the act itself; the act completed, the free-ing is ended. To advance the concept of freedom as a reality is to attempt to give to that which has no meaning apart from expansion of a force, the laid-out, static quality of the objective world; it seeks to establish in space - in the static - that which has an existence only in time; of which the termination is the motive which engenders the beginning. There is no freedom and hence there can be no fight for it.
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1 There is only one person concerned in the freeing of individuals: and that is the person who wears and feels and resents the shackles. Shackles must be burst off: if they are cut away from outside, they will immediately reform, as those whose cause is “our poor sisters” and “poor brothers” will find.
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6 There is only one thing the down-trodden with retained dignity can do, and that is to Get Up.
The Freewoman, Volume 1 Number 1, June 15th 1913
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1 The law is not for those who make it. It is for the dispossessed only.
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2 The law of honesty is the first precept written out on the Iron Mask. Honesty is a rule of convenience whose purpose is to keep back the crowd from the excellent game of the select few.
The Freewoman, Volume 1 Number 1, June 15th 1913
High finance - a game of sport best played like cricket, with limited numbers.
The Freewoman, Volume 1 Number 1, June 15th 1913
The fat man is just as likely to endow the lean scolders as is the Almighty - none at all. He is satisfied in the knowledge that they can achieve their own endowment as he and his achieved theirs, by taking from yielding hands.
The Freewoman, Volume 1 Number 1, June 15th 1913
Hence, the popularity of the “Cause” which provides the Ideal to which the “desired self-sacrifice can be offered.” The greater the sacrifice the Idol can accept the greater is it as a “Cause,” whether it be liberty, equality, fraternity, honesty or what not. If ten thousand starving men, with their tens of thousands of dependents, starve in the Cause of Honesty, how great is Honesty. If a woman throws away her life for freedom, how great is freedom. And no mistake.
The Freewoman, Volume 1 Number 1, June 15th 1913
