Top 25 Emma Goldman Quotes

1) “Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.”

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2) “Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. For jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.”

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3) “The idealists and visionaries, foolish enough to throw caution to the winds and express their ardor and faith in some supreme deed, have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.”

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4) “It requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.”

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5) “People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.”

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6) “It requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.”

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7) “The most violent element in society is ignorance.”

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8) “It requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.”

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9) “The pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.”

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10) “The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather understand one another.”

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11) “The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.”

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12) “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.”

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13) “The right to vote, or equal civil rights, may be good demands, but true emancipation begins neither at the polls nor in courts. It begins in woman's soul.”

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14) “Love is it's own protection.”

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15) “Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free.”

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16) “Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love."

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17) “I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.”

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18) “Crime is naught but misdirected energy.”

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19) "When we can't dream any longer we die."

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20) “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.”

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21) "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."

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22) “Revolution is but thought carried into action."

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23) “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all human beings, irrespective of race, color, or sex, are born with the equal right to share at the table of life; that to secure this right, there must be established among men economic, social, and political freedom.”

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24) “It is safe to say that no other superstition is so detrimental to growth, so enervating and paralyzing to the minds and hearts of the people, as the superstition of morality.”

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25) “When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favor.”

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