Take Bread

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"They will go on robbing you, your children, and your children's children, unless you wake up, unless you become daring enough to demand your rights. Well, then, demonstrate before the palaces of the rich; demand work. If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread."

Imprisoned for inciting riot, blamed for fomenting the assassination of William McKinley, deported in the firstRed Scare, called the High Priestess of Anarchy, the Red Queen, the most dangerous woman in America-writer and revolutionary Emma Goldman was one of the most prominent and feared radical thinkers of her time.

Presented here are her early views on political violence, a nuanced collection comprehending the relationship between the individual violence of the revolutionary and the institutionalized violence that calls it forth.