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Today is the parent of tomorrow. The present casts its shadow far into the future. That is the law of life, individual and social. Revolution that divests itself of ethical values thereby lays the foundation of injustice, deceit, and oppression for the future society. The means used to prepare the future become its cornerstone.

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Mean, Law, Parent

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

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From infancy, almost, the average girl is told that marriage is her ultimate goal; therefore her training and education must be directed toward that end. Like the mute beast fattened for slaughter, she is prepared for that.

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Marriage, Girl, Average

Emma Goldman (2012). “Marriage and Love”, p.6, The Floating Press

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Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.

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Inferiority, Economic, Social

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.100, 谷月社

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In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice of protest, to call the attention of the people to the crime and outrage which are about to be perpetrated on them.

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War, Men, Voice

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

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Social and economic well-being will become a reality only through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through the mass.

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Determination, Intelligent, Reality

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.43, 谷月社

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Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of the psychological motives and needs upon existing institutions.

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Ideas, Needs, Psychological

"Living My Life". Book by Emma Goldman, p. 402, 1931.

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Redemption through the Cross is worse than damnation, because of the terrible burden it imposes upon humanity, because of the effect it has on the human soul, fettering and paralyzing it with the weight of the burden exacted through the death of Christ.

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Soul, Humanity, Atheism

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

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Yes, authority, coercion, and dependence rest on the mass, but never freedom or the free unfoldment of the individual, never the birth of a free society. The Socialist demagogues know that as well as I, but they maintain the myth of the virtues of the majority, because their very scheme of life means the perpetuation of power.

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Mean, Majority, Coercion

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.42, 谷月社

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... the keynote of government is injustice.

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Government, Anarchy, Injustice

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.31, 谷月社

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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.

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Christian, Fashion, Pain

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Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or to any other domain of human thought and expression - to science, literature, music; in fact, everything that makes for freedom and joy and beauty must refuse to move within the law. How can it be otherwise? The law is stationary, fixed, mechanical, 'a chariot wheel' which grinds all alike without regard to time, place and condition, without ever taking into account cause and effect, without ever going into the complexity of the human soul.

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Moving, Expression, Law

Address to the Jury, delivered 9 July 1917, New York

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When we have undermined the patriotic lie, we shall have cleared the path for the great structure where all shall be united into a universal brotherhood — a truly free society.

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Lying, Patriotic, Brotherhood

"What is Patriotism?". Emma Goldman's Speech in San Francisco, California, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. April 26, 1908.

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It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power.

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Fighting, Humanity, Atheism

Emma Goldman (1915). “Mother Earth Bulletin”

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After all, that is what laws are for, to be made and unmade.

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Law, Made

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

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Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains that God, the State, and society are non-existent, that their promises are null and void, since they can be fulfilled only through man's subordination.

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Philosophy, Men, Promise

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

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Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.

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Heaven, Dull, Spirit

Emma Goldman (1913). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.

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Character, Ideas, Intellectual

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

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On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.

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Inspirational, Funny, Marriage

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.172, Library of Alexandria

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Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore induce the young manhood of the whole world to do the fighting for them.

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Peace, War, Fighting

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Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.

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Life, Education, Children

Emma Goldman (1968). “Mother Earth, a Monthly Magazine Devoted to the Social Science and Literature”

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Even were the workers able to have their own representatives, for which our good Socialist politicians are clamoring, what chances are there for their honesty and good faith?

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Honesty, Able, Anarchy

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.43, Sheba Blake Publishing

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Man must get back to himself before he can learn his relation to his fellows. Prometheus chained to the Rock of Ages is doomed to remain the prey of the vultures of darkness. Unbind Prometheus, and you dispel the night and its horrors.

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Night, Men, Rocks

Emma Goldman (1983). “Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader”, Schocken

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Marriage is primarily an economic arrangement, an insurance pact. It differs from the ordinary life insurance agreement only in that it is more binding, more exacting.

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Agreement, Ordinary, Economic

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.151, Sheba Blake Publishing

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When primitive man heard thunder or saw the lightning, he could not account for either, and therefore concluded that back of them must be a force greater than himself. Similarly he saw a supernatural force in the rain, and in the various other changes in nature.

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Rain, Men, Supernatural Forces

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.97, Library of Alexandria

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Do not all theists insist that there can be no morality, no justice, honesty or fidelity without the belief in a Divine Power? Based upon fear and hope, such morality has always been a vile product, imbued partiy with self-righteousness, partly with hypocrisy.

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Honesty, Self, Justice

Essay in the Mother Earth Journal, dwardmac.pitzer.edu. February 1916.

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Born: June 27, 1869
Died: May 14, 1940
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