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• The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

  Emma Goldman

  Religious, Sacrifice, Political

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.32, 谷月社

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• Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.

  Emma Goldman

  Patriotic, Arrogance, Patriotism

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.97, Library of Alexandria

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• How long would authority ... exist, if not for the willingness of the mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen.

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  Long, Soldier, Authority

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.42, 谷月社

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• Public school - where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our system of exploitation and oppression.

  Emma Goldman

  School, Mind, Moral

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2004). “Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909”, p.238, Univ of California Press

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• Revolution is indeed a violent process. But if it is to result only in a change of dictatorship, in a shifting of names and political personalities, then it is hardly worth while.

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  Names, Personality, Political

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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• No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

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  Real, Politics, Revolution

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• It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.

  Emma Goldman

  Political, Violence, Injustice

  Address to the Jury, delivered 9 July 1917, New York

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• No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the PURPOSES to be achieved. Revolution is the negation of the existing, a violent protest against man's inhumanity to man with all the thousand and one slaveries it involves. It is the destroyer of dominant values upon which a complex system of injustice, oppression, and wrong has been built up by ignorance and brutality. It is the herald of NEW VALUES, ushering in a transformation of the basic relations of man to man, and of man to society.

  Emma Goldman

  Ignorance, Mean, Men

  "My Disillusionment in Russia". Book by Emma Goldman, 1925.

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• They do not want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and beauty, of art and science, all these being impossible in a clock-like, mechanical atmosphere.

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  Art, Atmosphere, Liberty

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.30, 谷月社

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• You cannot build up a standing army and then throw it back into a box like tin soldiers. Armies equipped to the teeth with weapons, with highly developed instruments of murder and backed by their military interests, have their own dynamic functions.

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  Military, Army, Soldier

  Emma Goldman (1917*). “Preparedness, the road to universal slaughter”

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• Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in squalor, in filth, in crime, with hope and joy gone, a homeless, soulless army of human prey.

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  Army, America, Joy

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• The benefits brought to the Russian people by Bolshevism exist only on paper painted in glowing colors by Bolshevist propaganda.

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  Color, Glowing, People

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• Patriotism is a menace to liberty.

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  Patriotism, Liberty, Menace

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• There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be.

  Emma Goldman

  Government

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• When in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right to rebel against, and overthrow, these institutions.

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  Men, People, Rebel

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.450, University of Illinois Press

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• If I can not dance, I want no part in your revolution.

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  Want, Revolution, Can Not

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• We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America. How else is the world to take America seriously, when democracy at home is daily being outraged, free speech suppressed, peaceable assemblies broken up by overbearing and brutal gangsters in uniform; when free press is curtailed and every independent opinion gagged? Verily, poor as we are in democracy, how can we give of it to the world?

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  War, Home, Independent

  Address to the Jury, delivered 9 July 1917, New York

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• If elections really changed anything, they would be outlawed.

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  Would Be, Election, Changed

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• Peter Kropotkin...was recognized by friend and foe as one of the greatest minds...of the nineteenth century...The lucidity and brilliance of his mind combined with his warm-heartednes s into the harmonious whole of a fascinating and gracious personality.

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  Personality, Mind, Century

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• I don't care if a man's theory for tomorrow is correct, I care if his spirit of today is correct.

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  Men, Care, Today

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• Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.

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  Work, Giving, Bread

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• To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future.

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  Parent, Shadow, Morrow

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.262, Courier Corporation

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• The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

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  Life, Rights, Justice

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.126, 谷月社

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• It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals and is so crassly indifferent to the various gradations and variations of gender and their great significance in life.

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  People, Understanding, Tragedy

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• The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.

  Emma Goldman

  Government, People, States

  Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International

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