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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.
Emma Goldman
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Emma Goldman
Age: 70 †
Born: 1869
Born: June 27
Died: 1940
Died: May 14
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Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.
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The government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter.
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The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.
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To-day is the parent of to-morrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future.
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Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
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Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future.
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I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
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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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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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True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.
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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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Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there for their honesty and good faith?
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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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The State has no more existence than gods and devils have. They are equally the reflex and creation of man, for man, the individual, is the only reality. The State is but the shadow of man, the shadow of his opaqueness, of his ignorance and fear.
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... the modern drama, operating through the double channel of dramatist and interpreter, affecting as it does both mind and heart,is the strongest force in developing social discontent, swelling the powerful tide of unrest that sweeps onward and over the dam of ignorance, prejudice, and superstition.
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