“Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in squalor, in filth, in crime, with hope and joy gone, a homeless, soilless army of human prey.”
Emma Goldman
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“Religion! How it dominates man’s mind, how it humiliates and degrades his soul. God is everything, man is nothing, says religion. But out of that nothing God has created a kingdom so despotic, so tyrannical, so cruel, so terribly exacting that naught but gloom and tears and blood have ruled the world since gods began.”
Emma Goldman
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“… the keynote of government is injustice.”
Emma Goldman
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“The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation.”
Emma Goldman
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“The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful citizen is he who goes about heavily armed. The experience of every-day life fully proves that the armed individual is invariably anxious to try his strength. The same is historically true of governments. Really peaceful countries do not waste life and energy in war preparations, with the result that peace is maintained.”
Emma Goldman
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“All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.”
Emma Goldman
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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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“It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts ofthe people, as the superstition of Morality.”
Emma Goldman
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“Crime is naught but misdirected energy.”
Emma Goldman
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“The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.”
Emma Goldman
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“Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.”
Emma Goldman
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“Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.”
Emma Goldman
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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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“Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name!”
Emma Goldman
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“Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there.”
Emma Goldman
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