Emma Goldman Quotes About Persecution

Quotes about: Persecution

• I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.' Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world — prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own closest comrades I would live my beautiful ideal.

  Emma Goldman

  Beautiful, Self, Expression

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.56, Cosimo, Inc.

• 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

• The persecution of the innovator and protestant has always been inspired by fear on the part of constituted authority of having its infallibility questioned and its power undermined.

  Emma Goldman

  Inspired, Authority, Persecution

  Alphonso Lingis, Emma Goldman (1996). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Humanities Press International

• 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.

  Emma Goldman

  Pain, Men, Long

  Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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