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" Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open. "
Emma Goldman
Always
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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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" 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. "
Emma Goldman
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Place
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" The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue. "
Emma Goldman
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Rogue
Political
" 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. "
Emma Goldman
Never
Love
Take
" The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another. "
Emma Goldman
Forgive
Rather
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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. "
Emma Goldman
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" The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought. "
Emma Goldman
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Sin
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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. "
Emma Goldman
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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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Great
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" There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics. "
Emma Goldman
Woman
Vote
Right
" Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed. "
Emma Goldman
Strong
Way
Expression
" The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character. "
Emma Goldman
Strong
Sex
Friend
" Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. "
Emma Goldman
World
Enough
Foolish
" 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. "
Emma Goldman
Man
Brains
Free
" Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. "
Emma Goldman
Said
Effort
Think
" Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be. "
Emma Goldman
Effort
Woman
She
" No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action. "
Emma Goldman
Revolution
Change
Thought
" Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there. "
Emma Goldman
Spirit
Poor
Dull
" 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. "
Emma Goldman
Herself
Free
Modern
" 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. "
Emma Goldman
Baby
People
Every Day
" 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. "
Emma Goldman
History
Man
Progress
" 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? "
Emma Goldman
Mother
Victim
Picture
" 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
End
Liberty
Life
" If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. "
Emma Goldman
Politics
Voting
Changed
" 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. "
Emma Goldman
Sad
Chaos
Character
" One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing. "
Emma Goldman
Too
Dealing
Cannot
" Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. "
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World
Caution
Enough
" Crime is naught but misdirected energy. "
Emma Goldman
Crime
Energy
Misdirected
" The most violent element in society is ignorance. "
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Ignorance
Element
Most
" 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. "
Emma Goldman
Man
Moral
Sex