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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.


— Emma Goldman


#consist #does #fact #her #moralist

I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years been working to undo the botched job your god has made.


— Emma Goldman


#common-sense #religion #religion

Love is it's own protection.


— Emma Goldman


#love #marriage #love

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.


— Emma Goldman


#arbiter #captive #forces #great #harmony

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


— Emma Goldman


#about #action #been #brought #carried

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


— Emma Goldman


#dull #heaven #live #must #place

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


#essential #former #grafted #inherent #man

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


#become #colors #day #every #every day

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


#child #effort #every #generosity #hidden

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.


— Emma Goldman


#adjustment #after #case #close #couple






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After decades of obscurity Goldman's iconic status was revived in the 1970s when feminist and anarchist scholars rekindled popular interest in her life. Attracted to anarchism after the Haymarket affair Goldman became a writer and a renowned lecturer on anarchist philosophy women's rights and social issues attracting crowds of thousands. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War Emma Goldman traveled to Spain to support the anarchist revolution there.

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