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Rather Quotes by Emma Goldman
- Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a…
- 'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect.
- Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore almost inevitable that she should pay…
- What I prized most was freedom, freedom to do my work, to give myself spontaneously and not out of duty or by command. I could…
- I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
- To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out…
- In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.
- The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.
- I'd rather have roses on my table then diamonds on my neck
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