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Freedom Quotes by Emma Goldman

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Emma Goldman says that true safety comes from letting people speak their hopes. She argues that central power and government crush liberty, health, and art, while anarchism tries to free the mind from religion and the body from property. She also warns that a society that bans independent thought commits a great sin.

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Patriotism is a menace to liberty.

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The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

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I want freedom, the right to self-expression , everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.

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People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.

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Liberty will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty...

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

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

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The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

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... woman's narrow and puristattitude toward life makes hera greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man has long overcome…

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The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right…

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Anarchism, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from…

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When we have undermined the patriotic lie, we shall have cleared the path for the great structure where all shall be united…

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What I prized most was freedom, freedom to do my work, to give myself spontaneously and not out of duty or by…

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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however,…

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I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as…

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Mother Liberty caresses with generous affections...[those] who, armed with the weapons of high-minded honesty,...have grasped that the freedom of each is rooted…

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The poor, stupid, free American citizen! Free to starve, free to tramp the highways of this great country, he enjoys universal suffrage,…

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“Anarchism proposes to rescue the self-respect and independence of the individual from all restraint and invasion by authority. Only in freedom can…

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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…

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Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King who could do no wrong, governments ordain,…

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“Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body…

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I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.' Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live…

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Yes, authority, coercion, and dependence rest on the mass, but never freedom or the free unfoldment of the individual, never the birth…

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Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the…

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“I consider Anarchism the most beautiful and practical philosophy that has yet been thought of in its application to individual expression and…

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“Anarchism alone stresses the importance of the individual, his possibilities and needs in a free society. Instead of telling him that he…

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“But what about human nature? Can it be changed? And if not, will it endure under Anarchism? Poor human nature, what horrible…

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“It has often been suggested to me that the Constitution of the United States is a sufficient safeguard for the freedom of…

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“The right to vote, or equal civil rights, may be good demands, but true emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in…

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“I know how your visit and my strange behaviour must have affected you," he wrote. " The sight of your face after…

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“A free Republic! How a myth will maintain itself, how it will continue to deceive, to dupe, and blind even the comparatively…

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No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and…

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ANARCHISM:The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest…

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There can be no freedom in the large sense of the word, no harmonious development, so long as mercenary and commercial considerations…

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“The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right…

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Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the…

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They do not want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and beauty, of…

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I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and…

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“Religion robs the soul of its independence; patriotism is the stupid worship of the world for which the well-being and the peace…

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Today is the parent of tomorrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. That is the law of life, individual and social.…

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

The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.