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• Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.

  Emma Goldman

  Lying, Men, Self

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.72, 谷月社

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• There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.

  Emma Goldman

  Vote, No Hope, Right To Vote

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.121, 谷月社

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• True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul.

  Emma Goldman

  Freedom, Soul, Court

  "Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909". Book by Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, 2003.

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• Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's enslavement and all the horrors it entails.

  Emma Goldman

  Men, Mind, Needs

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.36, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• ... nothing satisfies the craving of most women so much as scandal.

  Emma Goldman

  Scandal, Craving

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.137, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.

  Emma Goldman

  Men, Direct Action, America

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.44, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• Democracy must first be safe for America before it can be safe for the world.

  Emma Goldman

  Women, America, Democracy

  Emma Goldman (1968). “Mother Earth Bulletin”

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• The State has no more existence than gods and devils have. They are equally the reflex and creation of man, for man, the individual, is the only reality. The State is but the shadow of man, the shadow of his opaqueness, of his ignorance and fear.

  Emma Goldman

  Ignorance, Reality, Men

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

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• The people are urged to be patriotic ... by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience and readiness to kill father, mother, brother, sister.

  Emma Goldman

  Mother, Brother, Children

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.375, University of Illinois Press

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• Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods; nothing but pain and persecution have been man's lot since gods began.

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  Pain, Men, Long

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

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• The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies.

  Emma Goldman

  Pregnancy, America, Class

  "Mother Earth" Journal, 1911.

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• Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.

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  Foundation, Deceit, Revolution

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

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• Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future.

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  Inspirational, Lying, Future

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.125, 谷月社

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• Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

  Emma Goldman

  Nature, Names, Crime

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.34, 谷月社

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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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• The spirit of militarism has already permeated all walks of life. Indeed, I am convinced that militarism is a greater danger here than anywhere else, because of the many bribes capitalism holds out to those whom it wishes to destroy.

  Emma Goldman

  Wish, Spirit, Danger

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.80, 谷月社

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• Imagine, capitalist America also divides the anarchists into two categories, philosophic and criminal. The first are accepted in highest circles; one of them is even high in the councils of the Wilson Administration. The second category, to which we have the honor of belonging, is persecuted and often imprisoned. Yours also seems to be a distinction without a difference. Don't you think so?

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  Thinking, Circles, Two

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• Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and activity should reach its fullest expression; all artificial barriers should be broken, and the road towards greater freedom cleared of every trace of centuries of submission and slavery.

  Emma Goldman

  Expression, Broken, Slavery

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.178, University of Illinois Press

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• Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless dabbler in science, presumes to speak authoritatively of human nature. The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature.

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  Kings, Names, Weakness

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.34, 谷月社

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• The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.

  Emma Goldman

  Strong, Sex, Character

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.147, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the existing conditions; but it is exactly the existing conditions that one objects to, and any scheme that could accept these conditions is wrong and foolish.

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  Oscars, Anarchy, Foolish

  Emma Goldman (1969). “Anarchism: And Other Essays”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• No, it is not because woman is lacking in responsibility, but because she has too much of the latter that she demands to know how to prevent conception.

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  Responsibility, Birth Control, Demand

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.105, PM Press

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• Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine.

  Emma Goldman

  Jealousy, Character, Understanding

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.88, PM Press

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• The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will have no more to do with it. Instead, they believe with Stirner that man has as much liberty as he is willing to take. Anarchism therefore stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral. But defiance and resistance are illegal. Therein lies the salvation of man. Everything illegal necessitates integrity, self-reliance and courage.

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  Integrity, Lying, Believe

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.36, 谷月社

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• Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

  Emma Goldman

  Patriotism, Training, Principles

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2004). “Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909”, p.372, Univ of California Press

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