“My mind is appalled at the thought of a political party having control of all the details that go to make up the sum total of our lives.”

—  Lucy Parsons

The Principles of Anarchism
Context: My mind is appalled at the thought of a political party having control of all the details that go to make up the sum total of our lives. Think of it for an instant, that the party in power shall have all authority to dictate the kind of books that shall be used in our schools and universities, government officials editing, printing, and circulating our literature, histories, magazines and press, to say nothing of the thousand and one activities of life that a people engage in, in a civilized society.

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American communist anarchist labor organizer 1853–1942

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