"You don't fight a war with words, but with fortifications. The pickaxe and the shovel are as important at the rifle. I can't say it often enough."

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RevolutionariesAtheistsAnarcho-communistsAnarchistsParticipants of the Spanish Civil War
Original Language: English

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Interview (3 October 1936), as quoted in Durruti in the Spanish Revolution (1996) by Abel Paz, as translated by Chuck W. Morse (2007), p. 537