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• Religion! How it dominates man's mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion.But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began.

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  Men, Blood, Soul

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.29, 谷月社

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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.

  Emma Goldman

  Men, Blood, Soul

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.78, University of Illinois Press

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• Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.

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  Men, Two, Phantoms

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.35, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I want freedom, the right to self-expression , everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.

  Emma Goldman

  Beautiful, Self, Expression

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

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• The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful citizen is he who goes about heavily armed.

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  War, Army, Peaceful

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.90, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.

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  Change, Men, Diversity

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.261, Courier Corporation

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• Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most.

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  Individual, Social, Authority

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

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• What I believe is a process rather than a finality.

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  Believe, I Believe, Process

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.340, University of Illinois Press

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• The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.

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  Independent, Independence, Sin

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.40, 谷月社

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• No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

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  Sympathy, Education, Children

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• No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the PURPOSES to be achieved. Revolution is the negation of the existing, a violent protest against man's inhumanity to man with all the thousand and one slaveries it involves. It is the destroyer of dominant values upon which a complex system of injustice, oppression, and wrong has been built up by ignorance and brutality. It is the herald of NEW VALUES, ushering in a transformation of the basic relations of man to man, and of man to society.

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  Ignorance, Mean, Men

  "My Disillusionment in Russia". Book by Emma Goldman, 1925.

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• There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be.

  Emma Goldman

  Government

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• I don't care if a man's theory for tomorrow is correct, I care if his spirit of today is correct.

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  Men, Care, Today

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• Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

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  Inspirational, Forgiveness, Understanding

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• They do not want to know that centralization is not only the death-knell of liberty, but also of health and beauty, of art and science, all these being impossible in a clock-like, mechanical atmosphere.

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  Art, Atmosphere, Liberty

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.30, 谷月社

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• Lack of fairness to an opponent is essentially a sign of weakness.

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  Weakness, Opponents, Fairness

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.689, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Patriotism is a menace to liberty.

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  Patriotism, Liberty, Menace

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• If elections really changed anything, they would be outlawed.

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  Would Be, Election, Changed

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  ‎Civilization has been a continuous struggle of the individual or of groups of individuals against the State and even against "society," that is, against the majority subdued and hypnotized by the State and State worship.

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  Struggle, Civilization, Majority

  Emma Goldman (1998). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”

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• You cannot build up a standing army and then throw it back into a box like tin soldiers. Armies equipped to the teeth with weapons, with highly developed instruments of murder and backed by their military interests, have their own dynamic functions.

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  Military, Army, Soldier

  Emma Goldman (1917*). “Preparedness, the road to universal slaughter”

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• Everywhere and always, since its very inception, Christianity has turned the earth into a vale of tears; always it has made of life a weak, diseased thing, always it has instilled fear in man, turning him into a dual being, whose life energies are spent in the struggle between body and soul. In decrying the body as something evil, the flesh as the tempter to everything that is sinful, man has mutilated his being in the vain attempt to keep his soul pure, while his body rotted away from the injuries and tortures inflicted upon it.

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  Struggle, Men, Evil

  "The Failure of Christianity". "Mother Earth" Journal, April 1913.

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• I regard it as a tragedy that people of a differing sexual orientation find themselves proscribed in a world that has so little understanding for homosexuals and that displays such gross indifference for sexual gradations and variations and the great significance they have for living. It is completely foreign to me to wish to regard such people as less valuable, less moral, incapable of noble sentiments and behavior.

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  People, Understanding, Tragedy

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• ...The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism.

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  Military, Militarism, Capitalism

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.381, University of Illinois Press

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• Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in squalor, in filth, in crime, with hope and joy gone, a homeless, soulless army of human prey.

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  Army, America, Joy

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• I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.

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  Atheist, Jobs, Mistake

  Emma Goldman (2011). “Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)”, p.207, Cosimo, Inc.

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