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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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" 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. "

" The most violent element in society is ignorance. "

" Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there. "

" 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. "

" When we can't dream any longer we die. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice. "

" Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world. "

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

" 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. "

" Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free. "

" 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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" 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. "

" No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action. "

" Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other. "

" It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on. "

" 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? "

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

" Crime is naught but misdirected energy. "

" 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. "