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Emma Goldman
June 27, 1869 - May 14, 1940
Nationality: Lithuanian
Category: Activist

The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.

   

One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.

   

It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.

   

Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

   

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.

   

The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.

   

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

   

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.

   

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

   

Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.

   

Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.

   

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

   

Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.

   

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

   

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

   

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

   

Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

   

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.

   

To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.

   

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

   

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