ABSTRACT
T hrough the traces of their lives, America’s
rebels and renegades still speak to us about
society’s injustices and their own hopes:
Anarchism alone stresses the importance of the
individual, his possibilities and needs in a free
society. Instead of telling him that he must fall
down and worship before institutions, live and
die for abstractions, break his heart and stunt his
life for taboos, anarchism insists that the center
of gravity in society is the individual-that he
must think for himself, act freely, and live fully.
