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From infancy, almost, the average girl is told that marriage is her ultimate goal therefore her training and education must be directed toward that end. Like the mute beast fattened for slaughter, she is prepared for that.
Emma Goldman
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Emma Goldman
Age: 70 †
Born: 1869
Born: June 27
Died: 1940
Died: May 14
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The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
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The majority cannot reason it has no judgement. It has always placed its destiny in the hands of others it has followed its leaders even into destruction. The mass has always opposed, condemned, and hounded the innovator, the pioneer of a new truth.
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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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True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.
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The more hideous the mental contortions, the greater the delight and bravos of the mass.
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The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
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Politicians promise you heaven before election and give you hell after
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The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world with its liberating, expanding and beautifying possibilities, as against an unreal world, which, with its spirits, oracles, and mean contentment has kept humanity in helpless degradation.
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Anarchism...stands for direct action, the open defiance of, and resistance to, all laws and restrictions, economic, social, and moral.
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Pettiness separates breadth unites. Let us be broad and big.
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