If You Say That You Reject Violence

Impossibility Never Prevented Anything From Happening.

The Question May Seem Embarrassing, But It Can Be Answered In A Few Words. For Two People To Live In Peace They Must Both Want Peace; If One Of Them Insists On Using Force To Oblige The Other To Work For Him And Serve Him, Then The Other, If He Wishes To Retain His Dignity As A Man And Not Be Reduced To Abject Slavery, Will Be Obliged In Spite Of His Love Of Peace, To Resist Force With Adequate Means.

Anarchists Are Opposed To Violence; Everyone Knows That. The Main Plank Of Anarchism Is The Removal Of Violence From Human Relations. It Is Life Based On Freedom Of The Individual, Without The Intervention Of The Gendarme. For This Reason We Are The Enemies Of Capitalism Which Depends On The Protection Of The Gendarme To Oblige Workers To Allow Themselves To Be Exploited--or Even To Remain Idle And Go Hungry When It Is Not In The Interest Of The Bosses To Exploit Them. We Are Therefore Enemies Of The State Which Is The Coercive Violent Organization Of Society.

Intolerance Of Oppression, The Desire To Be Free And Develop One Personality To Its Full Limits, Is Not Enough To Make One An Anarchist. That Aspiration Towards Unlimited Freedom, If Not Tempered By A Love For Mankind And By The Desire That All Should Enjoy Equal Freedom, May Well Create Rebels Who Soon Become Exploiters And Tyrants.

The Only Limit To The Oppression Of Government Is The Power With Which The People Show Themselves Capable Of Opposing It.