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What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!

Emma Goldman

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Emma Goldman
Age: 70 †
Born: 1869
Born: June 27
Died: 1940
Died: May 14
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A politician, he knows that the majority cares little for ideals or integrity. What it craves is display.
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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.
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... the modern drama, operating through the double channel of dramatist and interpreter, affecting as it does both mind and heart,is the strongest force in developing social discontent, swelling the powerful tide of unrest that sweeps onward and over the dam of ignorance, prejudice, and superstition.
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The State, every government whatever its form, character or color - be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi or bolshevik - is by its very nature conservative, static, intolerant of change and opposed to it.
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the function of militarism is to kill. It cannot live except through murder.
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Political violence is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom.
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We shall soon be obliged to meet in cellars, or in darkened rooms with closed doors, and speak in whispers lest our next door neighbors should hear that freeborn citizens dare not speak in the open.
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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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The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.
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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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