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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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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.
Emma Goldman
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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.
Emma Goldman
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Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.
Emma Goldman
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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.
Emma Goldman
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The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
Emma Goldman
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The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.
Emma Goldman
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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.
Emma Goldman in
Marriage
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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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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
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To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character.
Emma Goldman
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Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
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 in
Education
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If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.
Emma Goldman in
Politics
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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 in
Politics
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