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Emma Goldman Quotes - Page 6

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

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

Freedom, Soul, Court

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

Atheism in its negation of gods is at the same time the strongest affirmation of man, and through man, the eternal yea to life, purpose, and beauty.

Atheist, Men, Atheism

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

The dominant, almost general, idea of revolution - particularly the Socialist idea - is that revolution is a violent change of social conditions through which one social class, the working class, becomes dominant over another class, the capitalist class. It is the conception of a purely physical change, and as such it involves only political scene shifting and institutional rearrangements

Class, Ideas, Political

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

Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime.

Hate, Law, Long

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.33, 谷月社

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.

Pain, Men, Long

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

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.

Pregnancy, America, Class

"Mother Earth" Journal, 1911.

Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! Every fool, from king to policeman, from the flatheaded parson to the visionless dabbler in science, presumes to speak authoritatively of human nature. The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature.

Kings, Names, Weakness

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

The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone speak of it today, with every soul in a prison, with every heart fettered, wounded, and maimed?... With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?

Heart, Space, Soul

Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.

Direct Action, Logical, Method

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

Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.

Wind, World, Foolish

The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.

Crime, Authority, Strongest

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

One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.

Social, Extremes, True Things

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.31, Sheba Blake Publishing

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass.

Religious, Real, Effort

All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.

Education, Mind, Accepting

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism and Other Essays”, p.29, Sheba Blake Publishing

"What would you do with the lazy ones, who would not work?" "No one is lazy. They grow hopeless from the misery of their present existence, and give up. Under our order of things, every man would do the work he liked, and would have as much as his neighbor, so could not be unhappy and discouraged."

Giving Up, Men, Order

"Emma Goldman: Made for America, 1890-1901".

Love is it's own protection.

Love Is, Protection

all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.

Government, Free Spirit, Weight

Religion is a superstition that originated in man`s mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has always been stumbling to block progress.

Religious, Block, Men

Emma Goldman, Candace Falk, Barry Pateman, Jessica M. Moran (2004). “Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909”, p.345, Univ of California Press

More pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority.

Class, Majority, Dictator

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

The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.

Peace, Expression, People

Emma Goldman (2013). “Living My Life”, p.210, Courier Corporation

True, we have no conscription; that is, men are not usually forced to enlist in the army, but we have developed a far more exacting and rigid force-necessity.

Army, Men, Force

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

The God idea is growing more impersonal and nebulous in proportion as the human mind is learning to understand natural phenomena and in the degree that science progressively correlates human and social events.

Ideas, Mind, Atheism

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

The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

Political, Alternatives, Politics

Emma Goldman (2015). “Anarchism: Top Crime Collections”, p.36, 谷月社

Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.

Thinking, Effort, Racist

Emma Goldman (2016). “Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926”, p.54, PM Press

Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most. His very "uniqueness," "separateness" and "differentiation" make him an alien, not only in his native place, but even in his own home. Often more so than the foreign born who generally falls in with the established.

Fall, Home, Native Place

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

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