Quote from Voltairine de Cleyre 

"...So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent, and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men."

Quote by:
Voltairine de Cleyre
(1866-1912) American anarchist, writer, speaker, feminist
Source:
Anarchism & American Traditions in Mother Earth (December 1908/January 1909)
 
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