It is necessary, in these critical moments when chauvinists, businessmen, and all those who cause wars or eagerly wait for them to profit at the expense of the people, declare themselves first-class patriots, that us, the anarchists, the stateless, the disruptive, those who above divisions of borders and races see in each worker a brother, oppose to the miserable cry of “pro fatherland”, the sublime principle of “pro humanity”.

Editorial of nº 226 of the Spanish anarchist magazine Tierra y Libertad (“Land and Freedom”), 12th of August 19141