“Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of the psychological motives and needs upon existing institutions.”

Source: Living My Life (1931), p. 402

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anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and sp… 1868–1940

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