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ANARCHISM:The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.

Emma Goldman

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Emma Goldman
Age: 70 †
Born: 1869
Born: June 27
Died: 1940
Died: May 14
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I feel sure that the police are helping us more than I could do in ten years. They are making more anarchists than the most prominent people connected with the anarchist cause could make in ten years. If they will only continue I shall be very grateful they will save me lots of work.
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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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It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.
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The God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and in the degree that science progressively correlates human and social events.
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There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be.
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Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.
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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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What I believe is a process rather than a finality.
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Political violence is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom.
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Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after
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readiness,' far far from assuring peace, has at all times and in all countries been instrumental in precipitating armed conflicts.
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Understand one another.
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The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
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Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.
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Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
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Pettiness separates breadth unites. Let us be broad and big.
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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 majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty.
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As to a thorough eradication of prostitution, nothing can accomplish that save a complete transvaluation of all accepted values--especially the moral ones--coupled with the abolition of industrial slavery.
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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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