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Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.
Emma Goldman
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Emma Goldman
Age: 70 †
Born: 1869
Born: June 27
Died: 1940
Died: May 14
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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.
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Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.
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Under miserable conditions of life, any vision of the possibility of better things makes the present misery more intolerable, and spurs those who suffer to the most energetic struggles to improve their lot, and if these struggles only immediately result in sharper misery, the outcome is sheer desperation.
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The pathos of it all is that the America which is to be protected by a huge military force is not the America of the people, but that of the privileged class.
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As to a thorough eradication of prostitution, nothing can accomplish that save a complete transvaluation of all accepted values--especially the moral ones--coupled with the abolition of industrial slavery.
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Out of the chaos, the future emerges in harmony and beauty.
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Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after
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Anarchism, the great leaven of thought, is today permeating every phase of human endeavor.... It is the philosophy of the sovereignty of the individual. It is the theory of social harmony. It is the great, surging, living truth that is reconstructing the world, and that will usher in the Dawn.
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In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.
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[Woman's] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality.
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When primitive man heard thunder or saw the lightning, he could not account for either, and therefore concluded that back of them must be a force greater than himself. Similarly he saw a supernatural force in the rain, and in the various other changes in nature.
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No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
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Our institutions and conditions rest upon deep-seated ideas. To change those conditions and at the same time leave the underlying ideas and values intact means only a superficial transformation, one that cannot be permanent or bring real betterment. It is a change of form only, not of substance, as so tragically proven by Russia.
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I want freedom, the right to self-expression , everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.
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Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.
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Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in squalor, in filth, in crime, with hope and joy gone, a homeless, soulless army of human prey.
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Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world, the mottos of which are: 'To take is more blessed than to give' 'buy cheap and sell dear' 'one soiled hand washes the other.
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so few people realize that preparedness never leads to peace, but that it is indeed the road to universal slaughter.
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