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Let us not overlook vital things, because of the bulk of trifles confronting us.

Emma Goldman

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Emma Goldman
Age: 70 †
Born: 1869
Born: June 27
Died: 1940
Died: May 14
Anarchist
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Feminist
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Peace Activist
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Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.
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After all, that is what laws are for, to be made and unmade.
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John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when torn from their soil in field and forest. With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?
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It is characteristic of theistic tolerance that no one really cares what the people believe in, just so they believe or pretend to believe.
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More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority.
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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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The most violent element in society is ignorance.
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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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Every society has the criminals it deserves.
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I don't care if a man's theory for tomorrow is correct, I care if his spirit of today is correct.
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The experience of every-day life fully proves that the armed individual is invariably anxious to try his strength. The same is historically true of governments. Really peaceful countries do not waste life and energy in war preparations, with the result that peace is maintained.
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There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be.
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Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one
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Peter Kropotkin...was recognized by friend and foe as one of the greatest minds...of the nineteenth century...The lucidity and brilliance of his mind combined with his warm-heartednes s into the harmonious whole of a fascinating and gracious personality.
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Lack of fairness to an opponent is essentially a sign of weakness.
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Anarchism aims to strip labor of its deadening, dulling aspect, of its gloom and compulsion. It aims to make work an instrument of joy, of strength, of color, of real harmony, so that the poorest sort of a man should find in work both recreation and hope.
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What I believe is a process rather than a finality.
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Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.
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Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.
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