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I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself to live for herself to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases. I demand freedom for both sexes, freedom of action, freedom in love and freedom in motherhood.
Emma Goldman
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Emma Goldman
Age: 70 †
Born: 1869
Born: June 27
Died: 1940
Died: May 14
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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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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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Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless dabbler in science, presumes to speak authoritatively of human nature. The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature.
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the function of militarism is to kill. It cannot live except through murder.
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... nothing satisfies the craving of most women so much as scandal.
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Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after
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... resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal.
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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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Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future.
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Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination.
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Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most.
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The American suffrage movement has been, until very recently, altogether a parlor affair, absolutely detached from the economic needs of the people.
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The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.
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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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There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be.
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Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.
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Man must get back to himself before he can learn his relation to his fellows. Prometheus chained to the Rock of Ages is doomed to remain the prey of the vultures of darkness. Unbind Prometheus, and you dispel the night and its horrors.
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The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world with its liberating, expanding and beautifying possibilities, as against an unreal world, which, with its spirits, oracles, and mean contentment has kept humanity in helpless degradation.
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What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!
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Some people never seem to learn from experience. No matter how often they had seen the lion devour the lamb, they continued to cling to the hope that the nature of the beast might change. If only the lion could get to know the lamb better, they argued, or talk matters over.
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