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• Patriotism ... is a superstition artificially created and maintained through a network of lies and falsehoods; a superstition that robs man of his self-respect and dignity, and increases his arrogance and conceit.

  Emma Goldman

  Lying, Men, Self

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.72, 谷月社

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• religion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.

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  Gun, People, Clubs

  Emma Goldman (1913). “Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures”

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• When we can't dream any longer we die.

  Emma Goldman

  Love, Inspirational, Dream

  Emma Goldman (1968). “Mother Earth Bulletin”

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• The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies.

  Emma Goldman

  Pregnancy, America, Class

  "Mother Earth" Journal, 1911.

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• We shall soon be obliged to meet in cellars, or in darkened rooms with closed doors, and speak in whispers lest our next door neighbors should hear that freeborn citizens dare not speak in the open.

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  Doors, Citizens, Rooms

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2004). “Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909”, p.583, Univ of California Press

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• Leo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

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  Patriotism, Training, Principles

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2004). “Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909”, p.372, Univ of California Press

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• The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.

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  Strong, Sex, Character

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.147, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• The Christian religion and morality extols the glory of the Hereafter, and therefore remains indifferent to the horrors of the earth. Indeed, the idea of self-denial and of all that makes for pain and sorrow is its test of human worth, its passport to the entry into heaven.

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  Christian, Pain, Self

  Emma Goldman (1913). “Victims of Morality, and The Failure of Christianity: Two Lectures”

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• Revolution is but thought carried into action.

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  Revolution, Action, Social Change

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.50, Library of Alexandria

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• Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future.

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  Inspirational, Lying, Future

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.125, 谷月社

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• ... resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal.

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  Responsibility, Men, Resistance

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.81, Library of Alexandria

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• We Americans claim to be a peace-loving people. We hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. Yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens.

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  Hate, People, Joy

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.377, University of Illinois Press

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• Direct action against the authority in the shop, direct action against the authority of the law, direct action against the invasive, meddlesome authority of our moral code, is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism. Will it not lead to a revolution? Indeed, it will. No real social change has ever come without a revolution. People are either not familiar with their history, or they have not yet learned that revolution is but thought carried into action.

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  Real, Law, Direct Action

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

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• The spirit of militarism has already permeated all walks of life. Indeed, I am convinced that militarism is a greater danger here than anywhere else, because of the many bribes capitalism holds out to those whom it wishes to destroy.

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  Wish, Spirit, Danger

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.80, 谷月社

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• A practical scheme, says Oscar Wilde, is either one already in existence, or a scheme that could be carried out under the existing conditions; but it is exactly the existing conditions that one objects to, and any scheme that could accept these conditions is wrong and foolish.

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  Oscars, Anarchy, Foolish

  Emma Goldman (1969). “Anarchism: And Other Essays”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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

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  Women, America, Democracy

  Emma Goldman (1968). “Mother Earth Bulletin”

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• The people are urged to be patriotic ... by sacrificing their own children. Patriotism requires allegience to the flag, which means obedience and readiness to kill father, mother, brother, sister.

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  Mother, Brother, Children

  Emma Goldman, Candace Falk (2008). “Emma Goldman”, p.375, University of Illinois Press

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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. Confucius cares not for the poverty, squalor and misery of the people of China. Buddha remains undisturbed in his philosophical indifference to the famine and starvation of outraged Hindoos; Jahve continues deaf to the bitter cry of Israel; while Jesus refuses to rise from the dead against his Christians who are butchering each other.

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  Christian, Jesus, Philosophical

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

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• No, it is not because woman is lacking in responsibility, but because she has too much of the latter that she demands to know how to prevent conception.

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  Responsibility, Birth Control, Demand

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.105, PM Press

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• Real wealth consists in things of utility and beauty, in things that help to create strong, beautiful bodies and surroundings inspiring to live in.

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  Beautiful, Strong, Real

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.37, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• ANARCHISM:The philosophy of a new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory that all forms of government rest on violence, and are therefore wrong and harmful, as well as unnecessary.

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  Philosophy, Men, Order

  Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.37, Library of Alexandria

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• Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine.

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  Jealousy, Character, Understanding

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.88, PM Press

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• The State has no more existence than gods and devils have. They are equally the reflex and creation of man, for man, the individual, is the only reality. The State is but the shadow of man, the shadow of his opaqueness, of his ignorance and fear.

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  Ignorance, Reality, Men

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

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• Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.

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  Triumph, Prostitution, Puritanism

  Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.74, PM Press

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• 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

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