“Up to now you have believed in the existence of tyrants. Well, you were mistaken. There are only slaves. Where none obeys, none commands.”

— Anselme Bellegarrigue , book Anarchist Manifesto

Anarchist Manifesto (1850)

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French anarchist 1813

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