Russian - Activist | June 27, 1869 - May 14, 1940
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
Emma Goldman
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If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.
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If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
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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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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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No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
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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.
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The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.
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When we can't dream any longer we die.
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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.
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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.
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The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
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