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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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" 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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Crime is naught but misdirected energy. "

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

" Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be. "

" The most violent element in society is ignorance. "

" 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? "

" 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. "

" All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves. "

Emma Goldman

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

" Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open. "

" I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. "

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

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

" The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "