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I want freedom, the right to self-expression , everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.

Emma Goldman

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Emma Goldman
Age: 70 †
Born: 1869
Born: June 27
Died: 1940
Died: May 14
Anarchist
Autobiographer
Feminist
Journalist
Lecturer
Nurse
Peace Activist
Philosopher
Political Activist
Political Philosopher
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Kovno
Freedom
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Right
Things
Anarchism
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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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the function of militarism is to kill. It cannot live except through murder.
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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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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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Love needs no protection it is its own protection.
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The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.
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Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
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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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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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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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all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.
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Those who sit in a glass house do wrong to throw stones about them besides, the American glass house is rather thin, it will break easily, and the interior is anything but a gainly sight.
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