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“How long would authority ... exist, if not for the willingness of the mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen.”

Quote by Emma Goldman

Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

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Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

This book is a curated collection of crime narratives that explore the intersection of anarchism and criminal activity. The stories delve into the complexities of anarchistic ideologies and their manifestation in various criminal contexts. 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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Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism.”

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Book:Anarchism and Other Essays

Source: Anarchism and Other Essays

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Source: Emma Goldman

“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.”

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Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections

“The powers know that the people at large are like children whose despair, sorrow, and tears can be turned into joy with a little toy. ... An army and navy represents the people's toys.”

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Source: Anarchism and Other Essays

“We shall soon be obliged to meet in cellars, or in darkened rooms with closed doors, and speak in whispers lest our next door neighbors should hear that freeborn citizens dare not speak in the open.”

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

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

“In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice of protest, to call the attention of the people to the crime and outrage which are about to be perpetrated on them.”

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Book:Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

Source: Red Emma Speaks: An Emma Goldman Reader

“In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, womans premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.”

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Source: Anarchism and Other Essays

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

“I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases. I demand freedom for both sexes, freedom of action, freedom in love and freedom in motherhood.”

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Source: Emma Goldman: Made for America, 1890-1901