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Predigested food' should be inscribed over every hall of learning as a warning to all who do not wish to lose their own personalities and their original sense of judgment.
Emma Goldman
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Emma Goldman
Age: 70 †
Born: 1869
Born: June 27
Died: 1940
Died: May 14
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so few people realize that preparedness never leads to peace, but that it is indeed the road to universal slaughter.
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The benefits brought to the Russian people by Bolshevism exist only on paper painted in glowing colors by Bolshevist propaganda.
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If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.
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No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
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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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What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!
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The spirit of militarism has already permeated all walks of life. Indeed, I am convinced that militarism is a greater danger here than anywhere else, because of the many bribes capitalism holds out to those whom it wishes to destroy.
Emma Goldman
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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statutory regulations, legislative enactments, constitutional provisions, are invasive. They never yet induced man to do anything he could and would not do by virtue of his intellect or temperament, nor prevented anything that man was impelled to do by the same dictates.
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Out of the chaos, the future emerges in harmony and beauty.
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The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality.
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The State, every government whatever its form, character or color - be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi or bolshevik - is by its very nature conservative, static, intolerant of change and opposed to it.
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The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies.
Emma Goldman
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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Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.
Emma Goldman
Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after
Emma Goldman
Art is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.
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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.
Emma Goldman
Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.
Emma Goldman
Every society has the criminals it deserves.
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