Emma Goldman Quotes About Emancipation

Quotes about: Emancipation

• 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.

  Emma Goldman

  Life, Rights, Justice

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.126, 谷月社

• Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.

  Emma Goldman

  Feminism, Being Free, Desire

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2004). “Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909”, p.180, Univ of California Press

• The most vital right is the right to love and be loved.

  Emma Goldman

  Love, Gay Marriage, Human Rights

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.126, 谷月社

• True emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in the courts. It begins in woman's soul.

  Emma Goldman

  Freedom, Soul, Court

  "Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909". Book by Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, 2003.

• The philosophy of Atheism has its root in the earth, in this life; its aim is the emancipation of the human race from all God-heads, be they Judaic, Christian, Mohammedan, Buddhistic, Brahmanistic, or what not. Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods, nothing but pain and persecution, have been man's lot since gods began. There is but one way out of this blunder. Man must break his fetters which have chained him to the gates of heaven and hell, so that he can begin to fashion out of his reawakened and illumined consciousness a new world upon the earth.

  Emma Goldman

  Christian, Fashion, Pain

• true emancipation ... will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds.

  Emma Goldman

  Sex, Men, Two

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.126, 谷月社

• 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 to be loved. Indeed, if partial emancipation is to become a complete and true emancipation of woman, it will have to do away with the ridiculous notion that to be loved, to be sweetheart and mother, is synonymous with being slave or subordinate. It will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds.

  Emma Goldman

  Mother, Sex, Men

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.126, 谷月社

• Emancipation should make it possible for woman to be human in the truest sense. Everything within her that craves assertion and activity should reach its fullest expression; all artificial barriers should be broken, and the road towards greater freedom cleared of every trace of centuries of submission and slavery.

  Emma Goldman

  Expression, Broken, Slavery

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.178, University of Illinois Press

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