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In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.
Emma Goldman
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Emma Goldman
Age: 70 †
Born: 1869
Born: June 27
Died: 1940
Died: May 14
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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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all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.
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In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.
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Yes, love is free it can dwell in no other atmosphere.
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There's never been a good government.
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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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... woman does not see what people of intellect perceived fifty years ago: that suffrage is an evil, that it has only helped to enslave people, that it has but closed their eyes that they may not see how craftily they were made to submit.
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Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.
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It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.
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Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.
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... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but itcan not do without that life.
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There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be.
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The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter.
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Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us.
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Every society has the criminals it deserves.
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