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Ishill, Joseph, editor (1924). Peter Kropotkin: the Rebel, Thinker and Humanitarian. Berkeley Heights, N.J.: Free Spirit Press.

PETER KROPOTKIN: TRIBUTES & APPRECIATIONS

Lenin was not heard, or only in a few letters printed abroad; but he may have thought that all his friends would interpret his silence, like that of Spiess when he met his death at chicago in 1887: "There will come a time when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you are strangling to-day" - the silence of Kropotkin covers a tragedy before which to us his weaker sides disappear, and his cheerful, indefatigable work for freedom, science, and humanity alone remains.

M. Nettlau

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"ACCUSTOMED AS WE ARE BY HEREDITARY PREJUDICES AND OUR UNSOUND EDUCATION AND TRAINING TO REPRESENT OURSELVES THE BENEFICIAL HAND OF GOVERNMENT, LEGISLATION AND MAGISTRACY EVERYWHERE, WE HAVE COME TO BELIEVE THAT MAN WOULD TEAR HIS FELLOW MAN TO PIECES LIKE A WHILD BEST THE DAY THE POLICE TOOK HIS EYE OFF HIM; THAT ABSOLUTE CHAOS WOULD COME ABOUT IF AUTHORITY WERE OVERTHROWN DURING A REVOLUTION. AND WITH OUR EYES SHUT WE PASS BY THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF HUMAN GROUPINGS WHICH FORM THEMSELVES FREELY, WITHOUT ANY INTERVENTION OF THE LAW, AND ATTAIN RESULTS INFINITELY SUPERIOR TO THOSE ACHIEVED UNDER THE GOVERNMENTAL TUTELAGE..."

"The Courtesy of Bread"
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