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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
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Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life hence responsible for the things done in their name.
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What I prized most was freedom, freedom to do my work, to give myself spontaneously and not out of duty or by command. I could not submit to such demands rather would I choose the path of a homeless wanderer yes, even go without love.
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religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.
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Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.
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... resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal.
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Anarchism stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. It stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals.
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Political violence is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom.
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Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
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Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.
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... woman does not see what people of intellect perceived fifty years ago: that suffrage is an evil, that it has only helped to enslave people, that it has but closed their eyes that they may not see how craftily they were made to submit.
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Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.
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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.
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Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.
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A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.
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The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.
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What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!
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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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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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Anarchism, the great leaven of thought, is today permeating every phase of human endeavor.... It is the philosophy of the sovereignty of the individual. It is the theory of social harmony. It is the great, surging, living truth that is reconstructing the world, and that will usher in the Dawn.
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In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice of protest, to call the attention of the people to the crime and outrage which are about to be perpetrated on them.
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