Emma Goldman Quotes About Democracy

Quotes about: Democracy

• Democracy must first be safe for America before it can be safe for the world.

  Emma Goldman

  Women, America, Democracy

  Emma Goldman (1968). “Mother Earth Bulletin”

• We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America. How else is the world to take America seriously, when democracy at home is daily being outraged, free speech suppressed, peaceable assemblies broken up by overbearing and brutal gangsters in uniform; when free press is curtailed and every independent opinion gagged? Verily, poor as we are in democracy, how can we give of it to the world?

  Emma Goldman

  War, Home, Independent

  Address to the Jury, delivered 9 July 1917, New York

• We say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America.

  Emma Goldman

  War, America, Democracy

  Address to the Jury, delivered 9 July 1917, New York

• ... woman does not see what people of intellect perceived fifty years ago: that suffrage is an evil, that it has only helped to enslave people, that it has but closed their eyes that they may not see how craftily they were made to submit.

  Emma Goldman

  Eye, Years, People

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.133, Sheba Blake Publishing

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