The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
so few people realize that preparedness never leads to peace, but that it is indeed the road to universal slaughter. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Direct action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
“Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the definer of all laws, of… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Order derived through submission and maintained by terror is not much of a safe guaranty; yet that is the only "order" that governments have… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
