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Voltairine de Cleyre

No one can hate petitions worse than I, and no one has less faith in them than I. But for my champion I am willing to try any means that invades no other’s right, even though I have little hope in it.

Voltairine de Cleyre, address to the Unity Congregation, Philadelphia, appealing for petitions against the imprisonment of Moses Harman (1890).

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