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The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.
Federica Montseny / Novelist
Determine
Fighting
People
Rhythm
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Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia.
Federica Montseny / Novelist
Anarchist
Russia
Spain
Suffering
Suffer
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We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.
Federica Montseny / Novelist
Conception
Hell
Messiah
Needs
Purgatory
Menacing
Sterile
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
Federica Montseny / Novelist
Economic
Moral
Problem
Presents
Resolved
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
Federica Montseny / Novelist
Anarchist
Dignity
Elements
Human Dignity
Liberty
Basic
Basic Elements
Creed
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The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.
Federica Montseny / Novelist
Fascism
Our Lives
Sacrifice
Struggle
Triumph
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I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
Federica Montseny / Novelist
Anarchist
Ideals
Never Change
Pursue
Wish
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But we must create in each person a sense of responsibility in order that each one of us can have the right to enjoy all his rights.
Federica Montseny / Novelist
Enjoy
Order
Responsibility
Rights
Create
Each
Each One
Sense
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Authority is something from which we are constantly subtracting, of which there remains always a residue, and which we attempt to make smaller and smaller.
Federica Montseny / Novelist
Authority
Remains
Always Something Make
Attempt
Smaller
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There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.
Federica Montseny / Novelist
Workers
Directed
Organisations
Solution
Therefore
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There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.
Federica Montseny / Novelist
Anarchist
Censor
Comprehend
Pretend
Parts
Spanish
Unable
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We tried many times before to speed on the social revolution in Spain; attempted to stir up the feelings of the people and to raise the banner of Libertarian Communism.
Federica Montseny / Novelist
Banner
Communism
Feelings
Libertarian
People
Revolution
Spain
Attempted
Raise
Stir
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Our constancy, same might call it our madness, was necessary to wear down the oppressive forces of the old democracy which, in Spain, was a hundred years behind the times.
Federica Montseny / Novelist
Constancy
Democracy
Madness
Spain
Years
Forces
Hundred Years
Oppressive
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In Spain, we should have enough intelligence, enough sense of individual and collective responsibility to do for ourselves that which would be imposed upon us by a dictatorship.
Federica Montseny / Novelist
Dictatorship
Responsibility
Should Have
Spain
Collective
Imposed
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If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.
Federica Montseny / Novelist
Anarchism
Europe
Other Countries
Spain
Comrades
React
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We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.
Federica Montseny / Novelist
Blind
Destructive
Grandiose
Revolution
Theory
Uncontrollable
Confirmed
Cruel
Forces
Namely
Operate
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And we will accept the creation of the Iberian Federation of a socialist republic which will give each region the right to construct its life in accordance with its economic possibilities and political preponderance.
Federica Montseny / Novelist
Creation
Federation
Republic
Socialist
Accordance
Construct
Possibilities
Preponderance
Region
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In order to fully realise our aspirations, we must create in the masses of the people the sense of sacrifice and responsibility that has been the characteristic of the anarchist movement throughout its historic development in Spain.
Federica Montseny / Novelist
Anarchist
Historic
Movement
Order
Responsibility
Sacrifice
Spain
Aspirations
Characteristic
Fully
Masses
Realise
Throughout
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Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.
Federica Montseny / Novelist
Appetite
Blood
Extermination
Heart
Honesty
Latent
Rogues
Spring
Thirst
Springs
Men Better Always
Depths
Emerges
Hearts
Honest Men
Neither
Worse
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