Emma Goldman Quotes

“I’d rather have roses on my table, than diamonds on my neck. —EMMA GOLDMAN The”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

A skillful playwright might have a good time with the story of the assassination of President William McKinley, and especially with the…

— Russell Baker

“There is no conflict between the individual and the social instincts, any more than there is between the heart and the lungs:…

— Nick Riggle

People need to dance. I'd say dance at least twice a day. That's how to get your energy up and how you…

— Eve Ensler

“I wanted to be Emma Goldman. I wanted to digest Doris Lessing’s Golden Notebooks like biscuits. I felt like Harriet the Spy,…

— Susie Bright

“In the weeks leading up to his arrival by train in Pittsburgh, Alexander Berkman had been obsessed with the escalating drama at…

— James McGrath Morris

“In the weeks leading up to his arrival by train in Pittsburgh, Alexander Berkman had been obsessed with the escalating drama at…

— James McGrath Morris

“But the question is, historically, part of the group that you're a part of - whether it's racial, gender, religious, whatever -…

— Jacob Applebaum

They look for a victim to chivy, and howl him down, and finally lynch him in a sheer storm of sexual frenzy…

— Aleister Crowley

“Once you start to speak, people will yell at you. They will interrupt you, put you down and suggest it’s personal. And…

— Audre Lorde

“On the sixth of September, 1901, President McKinley was shot by Leon Czolgosz at Buffalo. Immediately an unprecedented campaign of persecution was…

— Emma Goldman

“I was going to die, sooner or later, whether or not I had even spoken myself. My silences had not protected me.…

— Audre Lorde