6/20/2023 0 Comments Beanie sigel the reason aacThis is my confession: Fifteen years ago last May when the echoes of the Haymarket bomb rolled through the little Michigan village where I then lived, I, like the rest of the credulous and brutal, read one lying newspaper headline, “Anarchists throw a bomb in a crowd in the Haymarket in Chicago”, and immediately cried out, “They ought to be hanged!” This, though I had never believed in capital punishment for ordinary criminals. Yet I would not give it, for personal utterance is of trifling importance, were it not that I think at this particular season it will encourage those of our sympathizers whom the recent outburst of savagery may have disheartened, and perhaps lead some who are standing where I once stood to do as I did later. I make it sorrowfully and with self-disgust but in the presence of great sacrifice we learn humility, and if my comrades could give their lives for their belief, why, let me give my pride. Let me begin my address with a confession. The Eleventh of November, 1887 by Voltairine de Cleyre
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