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Against Quotes by Emma Goldman
- When the child has reached manhood he is thoroughly saturated with the belief that he is chosen by the Lord himself to defend his country…
- It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.
- The emotions of the ignorant man are continuously kept at a pitch by the most blood-curdling stories about Anarchism. Not a thing too outrageous to…
- Direct action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome authority of our…
- It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice,…
- No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the…
- Christianity is most admirably adapted to the training of slaves, to the perpetuation of a slave society; in short, to the very conditions confronting us…
- The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world…
- Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against the State and even against "society," that is, against the…
- The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. Primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them, saw in every…
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