Frederica Montseny Quotes

• 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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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• Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia.

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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.

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• Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.

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• The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

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• The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.

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• The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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• We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.

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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.

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Frederica Montseny (19)

Birth:	12th February, 1905
Death:	14th January, 1994
Nationality:	Spanish
Profession:	Anarchist, Novelist, Politician

About

Frederica Montseny was born in Madrid, Spain. She was a Spanish anarchist, politician, and novelist. She was Minister of Health during the social revolution that occurred in Spain parallel to the Civil War. She joined the anarchist labor union CNT and wrote for anarchist journals such as Solidaridad Obrera, Tierra y Libertad and Nueva Senda. In 1927, she joined the Federación Anarquista Ibérica. She wrote several novels include: Horas trágicas, Ana María, Vampiresa, La victoria, Sonata patética, and Una vida.

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