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Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

~Emma Goldman

Topics: Anything Criminal Function Glorified Indeed Morality More Mother Motherhood Our Picture Sacred Terrible Than Victim

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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

Topics: Does Fails Give Give And Take How Know Lay Love Minus Never Plus Restrictions Stress Take Transaction Without

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Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.

~Emma Goldman

Topics: Another Before Forgive Understand

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The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.

~Emma Goldman

Topics: Altar Freedom Human Like Maintained Political Political Freedom Purpose Religious Sacrifice State

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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

Topics: Anarchism Captive Forces Great Harmony Held Him Individual Liberator Man Phantoms Social Two

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The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.

~Emma Goldman

Topics: Alternative Arena Dunce Either Leaves Must Political Political Arena Rogue

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Puritanism, in whatever expression, is a poisonous germ. On the surface everything may look strong and vigorous; yet the poison works its way persistently, until the entire fabric is doomed.

~Emma Goldman

Topics: Doomed Entire Everything Expression Fabric Germ Look May Poison Poisonous Puritanism Strong Surface Until Vigorous Way Whatever Works

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When we can't dream any longer we die.

~Emma Goldman

Topics: Any Die Dream Longer

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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.

~Emma Goldman

Topics: Anything Bought Brains Buy Failed Free Free Love Free Man Love Love Is Man Millions World

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One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.

~Emma Goldman

Topics: Cannot Dealing Extreme Generally Ills Social Thing Too True

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Biography

Nationality: Russian

Type: Activist

Born: June 27th, 1869

Died: May 14th, 1940

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