Status Updates From Defiance: Anarchist Stateme...

People recognize homelands only to make them a home for war. People recognize borders only to make of them an object to tamper with. The homeland, the family, we conceive them in a larger sense, spread wider. Those are our crimes. —Louise Michel

Without authority resting in the hands of a single person, there will be light, there will be truth, and there will be justice. Authority given to one person is a crime. What we want is the authority of all. M l’Avocat-général was accusing me of wanting to be a leader. I have too much pride for that. I cannot abase myself and being a leader is an abasement.

Since it seems that every heart that beats for freedom has no right to anything but a bit of lead, I demand my share! If you let me live, I will never see crying out for vengeance, and I will denounce the assassination of the Board of Pardons to the vengeance of my brothers…
I’m finished… If you are not cowards, kill me…