"Established order, being an instituted fixity, excludes reform, and whoever advocates change by that very act becomes an enemy to it."
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Dyer Lum
Dyer Daniel Lum (February 15, 1839 – April 6, 1893) was an American anarchist, labor activist and poet. A leading syndicalist and a prominent left-wing intellectual of the 1880s, Lum is best remembered as the lover and mentor of early anarcha-feminist Voltairine de Cleyre.
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