The Daily Meme #852!
Today we will meet Voltairine de Cleyre.
Voltairine's dad was a big fan of Voltaire.
[source: brave ai]
This is what Emma Goldman had to say about her:
The first time I met her — this most gifted and brilliant anarchist woman America ever produced — was in Philadelphia, in August 1893.
I had come to that city to address the unemployed during the great crisis of that year, and I was eager to visit Voltairine of whose exceptional ability as a lecturer I had heard while in New York.
I found her ill in bed, her head packed in ice, her face drawn with pain.
I learned that this experience repeated itself with Voltairine after her every public appearance: she would be bed-ridden for days, in constant agony from some disease of the nervous system which she had developed in early childhood and which continued to grow worse with the years.
I did not remain long on this first visit, owing to the evident suffering of my hostess, though she was bravely trying to hide her pain from me.
But fate plays strange pranks.
In the evening of the same day, Voltairine de Cleyre was called upon to drag her frail, suffering body to a densely packed, stuffy hall, to speak in my stead.
At the request of the New York authorities, the protectors of law and disorder in Philadelphia captured me as I was about to enter the Hall and led me off to the Police Station of the City of Brotherly Love.
The next time I saw Voltairine was at Blackwell’s Island Penitentiary.
She had come to New York to deliver her masterly address, In Defense of Emma Goldman and Free Speech, and she visited me in prison.
From that time until her end our lives and work were frequently thrown together, often meeting harmoniously and sometimes drifting apart, but always with Voltairine standing out in my eyes as a forceful personality, a brilliant mind, a fervent idealist, an unflinching fighter, a devoted and loyal comrade.
But her strongest characteristic was her extraordinary capacity to conquer physical disability — a trait which won for her the respect even of her enemies and the love and admiration of her friends.
A key to this power in so frail a body is to be found in Voltairine’s illuminating essay, The Dominant Idea.
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Are you are tired of paying your masters to bomb children in far away places?
Perhaps it is time you pushed back on that.
A simple way that anybody can do that is to hoard your coins.
The fed buys coins at face value from the mint.
A dollar of change in your pocket is a dollar of value out of the banksters' pockets.
Stop playing in their shell game that allows them to play in the amusement parks from hell and shop in the human grocery stores.
Billy Jack, the movie.
The Trial of Billy Jack.
Billy Jack goes to Washington.
