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Own Quotes by Emma Goldman
- The majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty.
- The people are urged to be patriotic ... by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience and readiness to…
- Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there for their honesty…
- Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most. His very "uniqueness," "separateness" and "differentiation" make him…
- I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.' Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite…
- 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…
- Love is it's own protection.
- The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the…
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