Federica Montseny
Federica Montseny
Federica Montseny Mañéwas a Spanish anarchist, intellectual and Minister of Health during the social revolution that occurred in Spain parallel to the Civil War. She is also known as a novelist and essayist...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionActivist
Date of Birth12 February 1905
CountrySpain
needs hell purgatory
We need no messiah and no sterile conception of a god menacing us with hell and purgatory.
wish anarchist never-change
I wish to say that we Anarchists have never changed our position. We are Anarchists as of old and still pursue the same ideals.
authority remains
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.
responsibility order rights
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.
struggle sacrifice triumph
The struggle is so great that the triumph over fascism alone is worth the sacrifice of our lives.
years democracy spain
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.
fighting people rhythm
The people themselves, and only the people, determine the rhythm of our fight.
moral problem economic
Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
responsibility should-have would-be
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.
responsibility sacrifice order
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.
russia suffering spain
Never will the Anarchists in Spain be made to suffer as they have been and are in Russia.
people feelings spain
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.
honesty spring heart
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.
liberty elements dignity
The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.