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Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future.
Emma Goldman
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Emma Goldman
Age: 70 †
Born: 1869
Born: June 27
Died: 1940
Died: May 14
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So-called Individualism is the social and economic laissez-faire: the exploitation of the masses by the classes by means of legal trickery, spiritual debasement and systematic indoctrination of the servile spirit, which process is known as 'education'.
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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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True, we have no conscription that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a far more exacting and rigid force-necessity.
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Predigested food' should be inscribed over every hall of learning as a warning to all who do not wish to lose their own personalities and their original sense of judgment.
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Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.
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Yes, love is free it can dwell in no other atmosphere.
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The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
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If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread. It is your sacred right!
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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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What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!
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The reward in heaven is the perpetual bait, a bait that has caught man in an iron net, a strait-jacket which does not let him expand or grow.
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the function of militarism is to kill. It cannot live except through murder.
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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.
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Every society has the criminals it deserves.
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How to raise this dead level of theistic belief is really a matter of life and death for all denominations. Therefore their tolerance but it is a tolerance not of understanding but of weakness.
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People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.
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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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Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one
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The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods it means the dissolution of the phantoms of the beyond.
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I believe - indeed, I know - that whatever is fine and beautiful in the human expresses and asserts itself in spite of government, and not because of it.
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