Sophia Bardina

thumb| Sophia Illarionovna Bardina (15 May 1853 – 26 April 1883) was a Russian revolutionary. Quotes Prosecute us if you will, but I am convinced that the day will soon dawn when our sleepy and lazy society will wake up and be ashamed that it has allowed itself to be humiliated for so long … and when this day comes, society will avenge us. Go on prosecuting us, physical force is still on your side: but moral force and the force of historical progress is on ours: ours is the power of ideas, and ideas cannot be impaled on the points of bayonets. Speech as a defendant at the "Trial of the 50" in 1877. Reported in The Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, vol. 33 (Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic International Press, 1976) pp. 200–201 Yes, we are anarchists, but, for us, anarchy does not signify disorder, but harmony in all social relations; for us, anarchy is nothing but the negation of oppressions which stifle the development of free societies. Reported in Alex Butterworth, The World That Never Was (Vintage, 2011) p. 171 External links Category:1853 births Category:1883 deaths Category:Feminists Category:Revolutionaries Category:Suicides Category:Women from Russia