Russian - Activist | June 27, 1869 - May 14, 1940
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
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Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
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Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
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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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In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.
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The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.
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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 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.
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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.
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There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.
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The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
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Crime is naught but misdirected energy.
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