remember...

'We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for
democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America. How else is the
world to take America seriously, when democracy at home is daily being
outraged, free speech suppressed, peaceable assemblies broken up by
overbearing and brutal gangsters in uniform; when free press is curtailed
and every independent opinion gagged. Verily, poor as we are in democracy,
how can we give of it to the world? We further say that a democracy
conceived in the military servitude of the masses, in their economic
enslavement, and nurtured in their tears and blood, is not democracy at all.
It is despotism–the cumulative result of a chain of abuses which, according
to that dangerous document, the Declaration of Independence, the people have
the right to overthrow.'

Trial and Speeches of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman in the United
States District Court, in the City of New York, July, 1917 (New York: Mother
Earth Publishing Association [1917]), 56-66

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