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The inhabitants of the other spots reason in like manner, of course, with the result that from early infancy the mind of the child is provided with blood-curdling stories about the Germans, the French, the Italians, Russians, etc.

Emma Goldman

Children, Blood, Mind

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.86, Sheba Blake Publishing

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Predigested food' should be inscribed over every hall of learning as a warning to all who do not wish to lose their own personalities and their original sense of judgment.

Emma Goldman

Education, Personality, Wish

Emma Goldman (1968). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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To call the State an organism shows a diseased tendency to make a fetish of words.

Emma Goldman

States, Tendencies, Shows

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

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Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their name.

Emma Goldman

Teaching, Names, Atheism

Emma Goldman (1913). “Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures”

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It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.

Emma Goldman

Mind, Social, Significant

Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.41, PM Press

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Mother Liberty caresses with generous affections...[those] who, armed with the weapons of high-minded honesty,...have grasped that the freedom of each is rooted in the freedom of all.

Emma Goldman

Mother, Honesty, Liberty

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Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment.... The philosophy of atheism expresses the expansion and growth of the human mind. The philosophy of theism, if we can call it a philosophy, is static and fixed.

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Philosophy, Punishment, People

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... woman does not see what people of intellect perceived fifty years ago: that suffrage is an evil, that it has only helped to enslave people, that it has but closed their eyes that they may not see how craftily they were made to submit.

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Eye, Years, People

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.133, Sheba Blake Publishing

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Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.

Emma Goldman

Love, Jealousy, Dope

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

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As to a thorough eradication of prostitution, nothing can accomplish that save a complete transvaluation of all accepted values--especially the moral ones--coupled with the abolition of industrial slavery.

Emma Goldman

Slavery, Moral, Accepted

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.109, 谷月社

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We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens. We are ready to hang, electrocute, or lynch anyone, who, from economic necessity, will risk his own life in the attempt upon that of some industrial magnate. Yet our hearts swell with pride at the thought that America is becoming the most powerful nation on earth, and that she will eventually plant her iron foot on the necks of all other nations. Such is the logic of patriotism.

Emma Goldman

Powerful, Hate, Heart

Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.377, University of Illinois Press

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How to raise this dead level of theistic belief is really a matter of life and death for all denominations. Therefore their tolerance; but it is a tolerance not of understanding; but of weakness.

Emma Goldman

Life And Death, Understanding, Tolerance

Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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[Woman's] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality.

Emma Goldman

Long, Long Life, Economic

Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.55, PM Press

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Sure, nothing succeeds like success. Fact is, dearest, we are fools. We cling to an ideal no one wants or cares about. I am the greater fool of the two of us. I go on eating out my heart and poisoning every moment of my life in the attempt to rouse people's sensibilities. At least if I could do it with closed eyes. The irony is I see the futility of my efforts and yet I can't let go.

Emma Goldman

Letting Go, Eye, Heart

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The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter.

Emma Goldman

Government, Goes On, Method

Emma Goldman “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but itcan not do without that life.

Emma Goldman

Business, Sacrifice, Commodity

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.81, Library of Alexandria

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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 to be loved. Indeed, if partial emancipation is to become a complete and true emancipation of woman, it will have to do away with the ridiculous notion that to be loved, to be sweetheart and mother, is synonymous with being slave or subordinate. It will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds.

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Mother, Sex, Men

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

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Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of God, but it refuses all servitude to the God idea, and opposes the theistic principle as such. Gods in their individual function are not half as pernicious as the principle of theism which represents the belief in a supernatural, or even omnipotent, power to rule the earth and man upon it. It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.

Emma Goldman

Fighting, Men, Ideas

Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth Bulletin”

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Our institutions and conditions rest upon deep-seated ideas. To change those conditions and at the same time leave the underlying ideas and values intact means only a superficial transformation, one that cannot be permanent or bring real betterment. It is a change of form only, not of substance, as so tragically proven by Russia.

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Real, Mean, Russia

Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.259, Courier Corporation

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Anarchism, the great leaven of thought, is today permeating every phase of human endeavor.... It is the philosophy of the sovereignty of the individual. It is the theory of social harmony. It is the great, surging, living truth that is reconstructing the world, and that will usher in the Dawn.

Emma Goldman

Philosophy, Anarchy, Dawn

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.37, 谷月社

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Nora leaves her husband, not-as the stupid critic would have it-because she is tired of her responsibilities or feels the need of woman's rights, but because she has come to know that for eight years she had lived with a stranger and borne him children. Can there be anything more humiliating, more degrading than a life-long proximity between two strangers? No need for the woman to know anything of the man, save his income. As to the knowledge of the woman-what is there to know except that she has a pleasing appearance?

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Marriage, Husband, Children

Emma Goldman (2012). “Marriage and Love”, p.5, The Floating Press

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True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.

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Rights, Broken, Feminism

"Anarchism and Other Essays".

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The burden of all song and praise "unto the Highest" has been that God stands for justice and mercy. Yet injustice among men is ever on the increase; the outrages committed against the masses in this country alone would seem enough to overflow the very heavens. But where are the gods to make an end to all these horrors, these wrongs, this inhumanity to man? No, not the gods, but MAN must rise in his mighty wrath. He, deceived by all the deities, betrayed by their emissaries, he, himself, must undertake to usher in justice upon the earth.

Emma Goldman

Country, Song, Men

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

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Success achieved by the most contemptible means cannot but destroy the soul. ... It helps to cover up the inner corruption and gradually dulls one's scruples, so that those who begin with some high ambition cannot, even if they would, create anything out of themselves.

Emma Goldman

Success, Ambition, Mean

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

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The inherent tendency of the State is to concentrate, to narrow, and monopolize all social activities; the nature of revolution is, on the contrary, to grow, to broaden, and disseminate
itself in ever-wider circles. In other words, the State is institutional and static; revolution is fluent, dynamic.

Emma Goldman

Circles, Revolution, Social

Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.257, Courier Corporation

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Born: June 27, 1869
Died: May 14, 1940
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