William Powell Quotes
If I could come out in this book and advocate complete revolution and the violent overthrow of the United States of America, without being thrown in jail, I would not have written The Anarchist Cookbook, and there would be no need for it.
Powell, William. The Anarchist Cookbook. Lyle Stuart, 1971.
Writing about congressional investigations such as those carried out by the House Un-American Activities Committee:
In a Chicago labor demonstration at the Haymarket a bomb killed several policemen. Fisher and his colleagues were anarchists who had printed a pamphlet the previous day advocating the demonstration and urging violence against the authorities in retaliation for the police-caused death of demonstrators the day previous. When the police were killed, Fisher and his colleagues were arrested, tried, and convicted of murder even though they were not even present at the scene. Several, including Fisher, were hanged before Governor Altgeld commuted the sentences of the other Haymarket “conspirators.” See {43713}
Description of the Marshals arresting her. She was charged with interfering with the Draft during WWI. She wrote and gave speeches against the war and was convicted according to the laws and court interpretations of the time.
This phrase was also to be used over 100 years later by Malcolm X. See {624101} and {38291}.
William Horatio Powell was an American actor. A major star at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, he was paired with Myrna Loy in 14 films, including the Thin Man series based on the Nick and Nora Charles characters created by Dashiell Hammett. Powell was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor three times: for The Thin Man (1934), My Man Godfrey (1936), and Life with Father (1947).
