DE CLEYRE, Voltairine. Direct Action
"These actions are generally not due to any one’s reasoning overmuch on the respective merits of directness or indirectness, but are the (...)
DE CLEYRE, Voltairine (1866-1912)
Articles
DE CLEYRE, Voltairine. "The Old Shoemaker"
Open Court [Essays and Contributions] 9 (1895) p.4642 Listen to the poem, read by Enko
de CLEYRE, Voltairine. "Ut sementem faceris, ita metes"
Open Court 4 (1890/1891) p.2427 (To the Czar, on a woman, a political prisoner, being flogged to death in Siberia. ) HOW many drops must (...)
de CLEYRE, Voltairine. "A Lance for Anarchy"
Open Court [Essays and Contributions] 5 (1891) p.2963 Listen to "A Lance for Anarchy" read by Philippa
de CLEYRE, Voltairine. "The Philosophy of Selfishness and Metaphysical Ethics"
Listen to this text, read by: Rhonda Federman In No. 197 of The Open Court appeared a criticism of the egoistic conception of life from the (...)
de CLEYRE, Voltairine. "I Am"
Open Court 6 (1892) p.3118 I Am I am! The ages on the ages roll: And what I am, I was, and I shall be: by slow growth filling higher Destiny, (...)
de CLEYRE, Voltairine. "Life or Death"
Open Court : 6 (1892) p.3302 A Soul, half through the Gate, said unto Life: "What does thou offer me?" And Life replied: "Sorrow, unceasing (...)
de CLEYRE, Voltairine. "John P. Altgeld"
This poem, written in June 1893, first appeared in Open Court 7 (1893) p.3782. It was reprinted in The Worm Turns (After an incarceration of (...)
de CLEYRE, Voltairine. "In Memoriam. To Gen. M. M. Trumbull." A Poem
This poem, dedicated to General M. M. Trumbull, who defended the Chicago Martyrs in 1886, first appeared in Open Court 8 (1894) p.4158. It was (...)
de CLEYRE, Voltairine. “Sex Slavery”
Moses Harman (1830 – 1910) was an anarchist schoolteacher and a freethought propagandist of women’s rights. He published Lucifer, the Light-Bearer (...)
de CLEYRE, Voltairine. "The Economic Tendency of Freethought"
This "article, reprinted from Benjamin Tucker’s periodical Liberty, was originally delivered by Voltairine de Cleyre as a lecture before the (...)
de CLEYRE, Voltairine. In Defense of Emma Goldman and the Right of Expropriation.
Philadelphia: The Author, 1894. "A LECTURE. Delivered in New York, Dec. 16. 1894." Listen to the talk In defence of Emma Goldmann and the right (...)