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[Woman's] life-long economic parasitism has utterly blurred her conception of the meaning of equality.
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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Anarchism, then, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion.
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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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... if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but itcan not do without that life.
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