'We have heard enough about a paradise behind the moon. We want something now. We are tired of hearing about the golden streets of the hereafter. What we want is good paved and drained streets in this world.' The humanist radical, Lucy Parsons, died #onthisday 1942 🧵
Lucy Parsons was an anarchist, activist, and freethinker, born in Virginia in 1851 to an enslaved woman. Her marriage to Albert Parsons saw them both champion socialism, anarchism, and workers’ rights. #HumanistHeritage
When Albert was executed in 1887, Lucy Parsons achieved ‘secular sainthood by virtue of her widowhood’, but she was also known until her own death in 1942 ‘as an orator of considerable strength and power and as a fighter for free speech and free assembly.’ #HumanistHeritage