- Change theme
Quotes by Emma Goldman
- The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul.
- The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
- The most violent element in society is ignorance.
- The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
- 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.
- There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.
- 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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