Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman

"When we can't dream any longer we die."
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"When we can't dream any longer we die."
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"The most violent element in society is ignorance."
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"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."
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"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."
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"All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves."
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"Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?"
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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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"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."
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"No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action."
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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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"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."
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"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."
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"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."
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"There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics."
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"Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world."
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"When we can't dream any longer we die."
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"The history of human growth is at the same time the history of every new idea heralding the approach of a brighter dawn and the brighter dawn has always been considered illegal outside of the law."
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"Man has bought brains but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love. Man has subdued bodies but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit but he has been utterly helpless before love. Thus love has the magic power to make of a beggar a king."
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"The motto should not be: Forgive one another rather understand one another."
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"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."
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