Emma Goldman quotes

Emma Goldman was a Russian-born anarchist and political activist known for her outspoken support of workers’ rights, free speech, and social change. Her writings and lectures challenged mainstream views on government, gender, and power. She became one of the most influential figures of early twentieth-century radical movements. Here are 152 of her quotes:

When we can't dream any longer we die. (Emma Goldman)
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. View quote
Emma Goldman
The most violent element in society is ignorance. View quote
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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. View quote
Emma Goldman
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. View quote
Emma Goldman
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. View quote
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If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. View quote
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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. View quote
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Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. View quote
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Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. View quote
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No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action. (Emma Goldman)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Crime is naught but misdirected energy. View quote
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There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics. View quote
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The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue. (Emma Goldman)
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. View quote
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Free love? As if love is anything but free! View quote
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The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another. View quote
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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. View quote
Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman

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Occupation: Russian Activist
Born: June 27, 1869
Died: May 14, 1940
Quotes count: 152
Wikipedia: Emma Goldman

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