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I want to make a summing up, brief and to the point, but thorough. I have never suppressed a word in my books out of regard for other people and their prejudices.

John Henry Mackay

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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
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John Henry Mackay

John Henry Mackay
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Born: February 6, 1864
Died: May 16, 1933 (aged 69)
Bio: John Henry Mackay was an individualist anarchist, thinker and writer. Born in Scotland and raised in Germany, Mackay was the author of Die Anarchisten and Der Freiheitsucher. Mackay was published in the United States in his friend Benjamin Tucker's magazine, Liberty.
Known for:
  1. Die Anarchisten (1891)
  2. The anarchists
  3. Max Stirner: His Life and His Work
  4. The Swimmer: The Story of a Passion
  5. John Henry Mackay: Autobiographical Writings

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