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“Lack of fairness to an opponent is essentially a sign of weakness.”

Quote by Emma Goldman

Book:Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)

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Living My Life (Two Volumes in One)

This two-volume set offers an in-depth look at the life of the individual, detailing their personal journey, achievements, and the historical context of their times. more

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Emma Goldman was a prominent American writer, lecturer, and activist, known for her work in anarchism and feminism. Born on June 27, 1869, in Lithuania, she immigrated to the United States in her teens. Goldman's life was marked by her advocacy for workers' rights, free speech, and sexual liberation. She was a key figure in the American labor movement and the early 20th-century radical movement. Her influential writings and speaking engagements made her a leading voice in the fight for social and political change. She passed away on May 14, 1940. more

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“statutory regulations, legislative enactments, constitutional provisions, are invasive. They never yet induced man to do anything he could and would not do by virtue of his intellect or temperament, nor prevented anything that man was impelled to do by the same dictates.”

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Book:Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909

Source: Emma Goldman: Making speech free, 1902-1909

“Peace or harmony between the sexes and individuals does not necessarily depend on a superficial equalization of human beings; nor does it call for the elimination of individual traits and peculiarities. The problem that confronts us today, and which the nearest future is to solve, is how to be one's self and yet in oneness with others, to feel deeply with all human beings and still retain one's own characteristic qualities.”

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Book:Anarchism and Other Essays

Source: Anarchism and Other Essays

“The State has no more existence than gods and devils have. They are equally the reflex and creation of man, for man, the individual, is the only reality. The State is but the shadow of man, the shadow of his opaqueness, of his ignorance and fear.”

Men States Reality Government Individual Existence Creation Ignorance Devil Shadow Reflexes Ignorance And Fear Creation Of Man

Book:Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“The State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.”

People States Government Certain Term Machinery Administrative

Book:Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“There is no such thing as a good government. There never was. There can't be.”

Author:Emma Goldman

“The State, every government whatever its form, character or color - be it absolute or constitutional, monarchy or republic, Fascist, Nazi or bolshevik - is by its very nature conservative, static, intolerant of change and opposed to it.”

States Character Government Form Color Absolutes Conservative Republic Nazi Monarchy Fascists Static Bolsheviks Constitutional Monarchy

Book:Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.”

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Author:Emma Goldman

“I believe - indeed, I know - that whatever is fine and beautiful in the human expresses and asserts itself in spite of government, and not because of it.”

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Book:Emma Goldman

Source: Emma Goldman

“Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine.”

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Book:Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926

Source: Anarchy and the Sex Question: Essays on Women and Emancipation, 1896–1926

“Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or to any other domain of human thought and expression - to science, literature, music; in fact, everything that makes for freedom and joy and beauty must refuse to move within the law. How can it be otherwise? The law is stationary, fixed, mechanical, 'a chariot wheel' which grinds all alike without regard to time, place and condition, without ever taking into account cause and effect, without ever going into the complexity of the human soul.”