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Emma Goldman

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If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.


— Emma Goldman


#music #revolution #music

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.


— Emma Goldman


#diamonds #i #neck #rather #roses

People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.


— Emma Goldman


#independence #independent-thought #inspirational #liberty #revolution

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


— Emma Goldman


#before #forgive #understand

When we can't dream any longer we die.


— Emma Goldman


#die #dream #longer

Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.


— Emma Goldman


#effort #less #mental #requires #said

Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.


— Emma Goldman


#revolution #anarchism

Every society has the criminals it deserves.


— Emma Goldman


#criminal #emma-goldman #politics #society #anarchism

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.


— Emma Goldman


#most #sin #society #thought #unpardonable

Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.


— Emma Goldman


#political-philosophy #revolution #anarchism






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After decades of obscurity Goldman's iconic status was revived in the 1970s when feminist and anarchist scholars rekindled popular interest in her life. Attracted to anarchism after the Haymarket affair Goldman became a writer and a renowned lecturer on anarchist philosophy women's rights and social issues attracting crowds of thousands. After the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War Emma Goldman traveled to Spain to support the anarchist revolution there.

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