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Emma Goldman Quotes
Emma Goldman
Russian
Activist
Born:
Jun 27
,
1869
Died:
May 14
,
1940
Every
Life
Love
Man
Woman
World
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I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Emma Goldman
Valentines Day
Table
Rather
Diamonds
Than
Roses
Neck
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
Emma Goldman
Ignorance
Society
Most
Element
Violent
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
Emma Goldman
Politics
Change
Thought
Revolution
Action
Carried
Brought
About
Without
Real
Been
Social
Social Change
Ever
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.
Emma Goldman
Education
Kindness
Soul
Wealth
Every
Sympathy
Unlock
Hidden
No-One
True
Generosity
True Education
Effort
Child
Realized
Should
Treasure
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.
Emma Goldman
Character
Woman
Human Being
Strong
Will
Sex
Single
Lose
Meet
Ought
Possible
See
Mental
Only
Higher
Comrade
Individuality
Development
Also
Male
Friend
Trait
Human
Being
Cannot
Congenial
Less
Who
Her
Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.
Emma Goldman
Think
Someone
Mental
Said
Condemn
Than
Effort
Requires
Less
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.
Emma Goldman
Life
Man
Change
Dignity
Human Being
Liberty
Sanctity
Every
Well-Being
Ultimate
Ultimate End
End
Revolutionary
Human
Establish
Being
Social
Social Change
Human Life
Right
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
History
Man
Soul
Woman
Women
Progress
Cause
Black
Men
Men And Women
Dared
Unpopular
Instance
Written
His
Blood
The History Of
Body
Who
Her
Right
The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.
Emma Goldman
Political
Must
Arena
Alternative
Political Arena
Leaves
Dunce
Rogue
Either
If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.
Emma Goldman
Love
Stress
Minus
Plus
Give
Give And Take
Restrictions
Lay
Take
Never
Fails
Know
Without
Does
How
Transaction
Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
Emma Goldman
Forgiveness
Before
Another
Understand
Forgive
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.
Emma Goldman
Great
Man
Harmony
Anarchism
Liberator
Arbiter
Individual
Him
Forces
Social
Held
Captive
Phantoms
Two
Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.
Emma Goldman
Women
Open
Always
Mouths
Keep
Shut
Need
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.
Emma Goldman
Time
Great
Law
Beginning
Stationary
Great Idea
Chariot
Idea
Within
How
Conditions
Fixed
Wheel
Regardless
Place
Which
Us
Binds
Ever
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
Emma Goldman
Freedom
Political
Sacrifice
State
Religious
Purpose
Maintained
Like
Altar
Political Freedom
Human
The individual whose vision encompasses the whole world often feels nowhere so hedged in and out of touch with his surroundings as in his native land.
Emma Goldman
World
Vision
Out
Touch
Individual
Feels
His
Surroundings
Often
Native
Native Land
Land
Whole
Whose
Nowhere
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
Emma Goldman
Life
Love
Rights
Equality
Every
Vital
Vocation
Demand
Fair
Most
Equal
Equal Rights
Just
After
Loved
To Love
Right
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.
Emma Goldman
Sad
Character
Result
Mind
Radical
Chaos
Indefinite
Possible
Hash
Neither
Uncertain
Ideas
Most
Sort
Nor
Methods
Intellectual
Contradictory
American
Taste
Movement
Which
Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
Emma Goldman
Crime
Energy
Misdirected
Naught
Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested - for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.
Emma Goldman
Day
Every Day
People
Will
Become
Fickle
Every
Baby
Must
Only
Colors
Glaring
New
Toy
Toys
Sorrows
Least
Very
Human
While
Interested
Turned
Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
Emma Goldman
Great
Change
Vision
Every
Great Change
Possibilities
Has-Been
Daring
Lofty
Attempt
New
Make
Been
Conditions
Existing
Labeled
New Possibilities
Human
Race
Human Race
Utopian
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.
Emma Goldman
Woman
Consist
Out
Moralist
Rather
Wedlock
Fact
She
Does
Sells
Much
Body
Her
Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.
Emma Goldman
Triumph
Puritanism
Nevertheless
Although
Greatest
Imprisoned
Chained
Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.
Emma Goldman
Love
Buy
Man
Love Is
World
Free
Free Love
Free Man
Bought
Failed
Brains
Anything
Millions
The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
Emma Goldman
Independence
Thought
Society
Unpardonable
Sin
Most
The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.
Emma Goldman
Rather
Another
Understand
Motto
Forgive
Should
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