“Can any one feel any respect for a government that accords rights only to the privileged classes, and none to the workers? We have seen but recently how the coal barons combined to form a conspiracy to raise the price of coal, while at tbe same time reducing the already low wages of their men. Are they accused of conspiracy on that account? But when working men dare ask an increase in their wages, the militia and the police are sent out to shoot then down.
For such a government as this I can feel no respect, and will combat them, despite their power, despite their police, despite their spies.”
George Engel, Haymarket Martyr, speaking in his own defense at his trial, 1886
(Source: class-struggle-anarchism, via abrahammx)
