Peter Kropotkin - I know you are an excellent writer and I heard you were a powerful speaker, but I also read you were an only-average organizer. is this true? How does one decide what to do - write or speak or organize?
Ah, you heard correctly. I am more at home with pen and lecture than with the work of organizing. I can explain, and teach ideas, but the daily labor of running societies, keeping accounts, settling disputes — that is harder for me. I leave it to others whose patience and temperament suit it.”
I believe one must serve where one is most useful. Some are born to organize, some to write, some to speak. The world needs all three. The important thing is to observe the need around you and act where your talents meet the need. A writer who writes well and reaches thousands can be as revolutionary as a person who keeps a local cooperative running day by day.
Write if you write well, speak if you speak well, organize if you organize well. All contribute to the same end: freeing people to live by mutual aid, not by the whim of masters.”