Emma Goldman

The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human…

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of…

The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have…

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it…

I’d rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck…

In the true sense one’s native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences…

The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought…

Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive…

Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world…

There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify…

The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is…

Morality and its victim, the mother – what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more…

On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling…

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in…

The most violent element in society is ignorance…