Anarchist Quotes by Emma Goldman

10 Anarchist quotes by Emma Goldman

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Emma Goldman’s ten succinct statements pack her fiery advocacy for freedom and social change into a compact form. Though brief, each line carries the passion and clarity that defined her lasting impact on anarchist thought.

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Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.

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I feel sure that the police are helping us more than I could do in ten years. They are making more anarchists…

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“Not only my arrest but the others smack of the Haymarket. The police are very much in disrepute all over the country,…

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“That every act of political violence should nowadays be attributed to Anarchists is not at all surprising. Yet it is a fact…

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“The typical Anarchist, then, may be defined as follows: A man perceptible by the spirit of revolt under one or more of…

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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…

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“Referring to the American government, the greatest American Anarchist, David Thoreau, said: "Government, what is it but a tradition, though a recent…

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The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State…

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“I became alive once more. At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest. One evening a cousin of…

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“Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of…

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Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight…

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“Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based…

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Lack of fairness to an opponent is essentially a sign of weakness.

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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…

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More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority.

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Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the definer of all laws, of…

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Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.

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The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.

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Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.

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The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned…

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Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have…

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