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• There's never been a good government.

  Emma Goldman

  Government, Liberty, Libertarian

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• The triumph of the philosophy of Atheism is to free man from the nightmare of gods; it means the dissolution of the phantoms of the beyond.

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  Philosophy, Mean, Men

  Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth Bulletin”

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• I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.

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  Life, Valentines Day, Nature

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• What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!

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  Thinking, Machines, Development

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.86, BookRix

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• Life without an ideal is spiritual death.

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  Spiritual, Spiritual Death, Ideals

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

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  Freedom, Soul, Court

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

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• Political violence is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom.

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  Violence, Individual, Bottom

  "Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader".

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• No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

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  Law, Ideas, Wheels

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

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• 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.

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  Sex, Men, Two

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

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• Every society has the criminals it deserves.

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  Criminals, Deserve

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.65, 谷月社

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• The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.

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  Government, People, States

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

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• I may be arrested, I may be tried and thrown into jail, but I never will be silent.

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  Jail, May, Silent

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.107, PM Press

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• Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society.

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  Foundation, Deceit, Revolution

  Emma Goldman (2003). “My Disillusionment in Russia”, p.262, Courier Corporation

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• Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.

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  World, Politics, Politician

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.180, University of Illinois Press

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• 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.

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  Expression, Broken, Slavery

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

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• Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.

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  Giving, Force, Ifs

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• Have not all theists painted their Deity as the god of love and goodness? Yet after thousands of years of such preachments the gods remain deaf to the agony of the human race.

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  Race, Years, Agony

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

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• Imagine, capitalist America also divides the anarchists into two categories, philosophic and criminal. The first are accepted in highest circles; one of them is even high in the councils of the Wilson Administration. The second category, to which we have the honor of belonging, is persecuted and often imprisoned. Yours also seems to be a distinction without a difference. Don't you think so?

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  Thinking, Circles, Two

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• The soldier's business is to take life. For that he is paid by the State, eulogized by political charlatans and upheld by public hysteria. But woman's function is to give life, yet neither the State nor politicians nor public opinion have ever made the slightest provision in return for the life woman has given.

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  Hysteria, Giving, Political

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.102, PM Press

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• Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.

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  Atheism, Needs, Mouths

  Emma Goldman (1971). “The traffic in women and other essays on feminism”, Times Change Pr

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• Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!

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  Nature, Names, Crime

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.34, 谷月社

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• Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's enslavement and all the horrors it entails.

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  Men, Mind, Needs

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.36, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.

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  Doe, Body, Facts

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.141, Library of Alexandria

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• ... nothing satisfies the craving of most women so much as scandal.

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  Scandal, Craving

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.137, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.

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  Men, Direct Action, America

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.44, Sheba Blake Publishing

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