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• All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

  Emma Goldman

  Education, Mind, Accepting

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.29, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass.

  Emma Goldman

  Religious, Real, Effort

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• The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

  Emma Goldman

  Crime, Authority, Strongest

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

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• all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.

  Emma Goldman

  Government, Free Spirit, Weight

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• One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.

  Emma Goldman

  Social, Extremes, True Things

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.31, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The pathos of it all is that the America which is to be protected by a huge military force is not the America of the people, but that of the privileged class.

  Emma Goldman

  Military, Class, America

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

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• It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.

  Emma Goldman

  Sex, Men, Aquariums

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

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• Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most. His very "uniqueness," "separateness" and "differentiation" make him an alien, not only in his native place, but even in his own home. Often more so than the foreign born who generally falls in with the established.

  Emma Goldman

  Fall, Home, Native Place

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

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• Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.

  Emma Goldman

  Thinking, Effort, Racist

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.54, PM Press

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• Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world, the mottos of which are: 'To take is more blessed than to give'; 'buy cheap and sell dear'; 'one soiled hand washes the other.

  Emma Goldman

  Blessed, Hands, Dear Ones

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.164, Library of Alexandria

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• The import is not the kind of work woman does, but rather the quality of the work she furnishes.

  Emma Goldman

  Quality, Doe, Kind

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.59, PM Press

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• Leo Tolstoy, the greatest anti-patriot of our time, defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers; a trade that requires better equipment in the exercise of man-killing than the making of such necessities as shoes, clothing, and houses; a trade that guarantees better returns and greater glory than that of the honest workingman.

  Emma Goldman

  Exercise, Men, Shoes

  Emma Goldman (2012). “Living My Life”, p.428, Courier Corporation

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• The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

  Emma Goldman

  Political, Alternatives, Politics

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

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• It requires something more than personal experience to gain a philosophy or point of view from any specific event. It is the quality of our response to the event and our capacity to enter into the lives of others that help us to make their lives and experiences our own. In my own case my convictions have derived and developed from events in the lives of others as well as from my own experience. What I have seen meted out to others by authority and repression, economic and political, transcends anything I myself may have endured.

  Emma Goldman

  Philosophy, Views, Political

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

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• Modern woman is no longer satisfied to be the beloved of a man; she looks for understanding, comradeship; she wants to be treated as a human being and not simply as an object for sexual gratification.

  Emma Goldman

  Men, Understanding, Looks

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• Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

  Emma Goldman

  Baby, Color, People

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

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• I was called before the head matron, a tall woman with a stolid face. She began taking my pedigree. What religion? was the first question. None, I am an atheist. Atheism is prohibited here. You will have to go to church. I replied that I would do nothing of the kind. I did not believe in anything the Church stood for and, not being a hypocrite, I would not attend.

  Emma Goldman

  Atheist, Believe, Hypocrite

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.133, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

  Emma Goldman

  Mom, Mother, Criminals

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.98, PM Press

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• The whole history of man is continuous proof of the maxim that to divest one's methods of ethical concepts means to sink into the depths of utter demoralization.

  Emma Goldman

  Mean, Men, Depth

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.261, Courier Corporation

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• Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society.

  Emma Goldman

  Training, Atheism, Christianity

  Emma Goldman (1913). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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• There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth.

  Emma Goldman

  Ignorance, Mean, Earth

  Emma Goldman (2012). “Living My Life”, p.207, Courier Corporation

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• Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral.

  Emma Goldman

  Law, Direct Action, Anarchy

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• ... woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong overcome the superstitions that still engulf women.

  Emma Goldman

  Attitude, Men, Political

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

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• If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread. It is your sacred right!

  Emma Goldman

  Giving, Demand, Sacred

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.123, Cosimo, Inc.

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• It cannot be sufficiently emphasized that revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal. Revolutionary methods must be in tune with revolutionary aims.

  Emma Goldman

  Tunes, Revolution, Inspired

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

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