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title: "2 Bloodshed Quotes By Emma Goldman"
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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/we-americans-claim-to-be-a-peace-loving-people-we-hate-bloodshed-we/)

[Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/we-americans-claim-to-be-a-peace-loving-people-we-hate-bloodshed-we-2/)

[Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/)

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## Other authors on Bloodshed

- [Martin Luther King, Jr 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bloodshed/martin-luther-king-jr/)

## More by Emma Goldman

> [Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/poor-human-nature-what-horrible-crimes-have-been-committed-in-thy/)

[Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/)

> [“Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/do-not-all-theists-insist-that-there-can-be-no-morality-no-justice/)

[Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/)

> [Lack of fairness to an opponent is essentially a sign of weakness.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/lack-of-fairness-to-an-opponent-is-essentially-a-sign-of-weakness/)

[Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/)

> [Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/do-not-all-theists-insist-that-there-can-be-no-morality-no-justice-2/)

[Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/)

> [Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/only-when-human-sorrows-are-turned-into-a-toy-with-glaring-colors/)

[Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/)

> [More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/more-pernicious-than-the-power-of-a-dictator-is-that-of-a-class-the/)

[Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/)

> [Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the definer of all laws, of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/love-the-strongest-and-deepest-element-in-all-life-the-harbinger-of/)

[Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/)

> [Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/whether-our-reformers-admit-it-or-not-the-economic-and-social/)

[Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/)

> [The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/the-free-expression-of-the-hopes-and-aspirations-of-a-people-is-the/)

[Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/)

> [Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/someone-has-said-that-it-requires-less-mental-effort-to-condemn-than/)

[Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/)

> [The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/the-persecution-of-the-innovator-and-protestant-has-always-been/)

[Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/)

> [Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/order-derived-through-submission-and-maintained-by-terror-is-not-much/)

[Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/)

> [Today is the parent of tomorrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. That is the law of life, individual and social.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/today-is-the-parent-of-tomorrow-the-present-casts-its-shadow-far-into/)

[Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/)

> [Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/salvation-lies-in-an-energetic-march-onward-towards-a-brighter-and/)

[Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/)

> [The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emma-goldman/the-more-hideous-the-mental-contortions-the-greater-the-delight-and/)

[Emma Goldman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emma-goldman/)

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