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... woman's narrow and purist attitude toward life makes her a greater danger to liberty wherever she has political power. Man haslong overcome the superstitions that still engulf women.

Emma Goldman

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Emma Goldman
Age: 70 †
Born: 1869
Born: June 27
Died: 1940
Died: May 14
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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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There's never been a good government.
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Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
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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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If they do not give you work, demand bread. If they deny you both, take bread. It is your sacred right!
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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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In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.
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... nothing satisfies the craving of most women so much as scandal.
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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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No, it is not because woman is lacking in responsibility, but because she has too much of the latter that she demands to know how to prevent conception.
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You have opened up the prison gates of my womanhood. And all the passion that was unsatisfied in for me so many years, leaped into a wild reckless storm boundless as the sea.
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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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John Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when torn from their soil in field and forest. With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?
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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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