Imagine, capitalist America also divides the anarchists into two categories, philosophic and criminal. The first are accepted in highest circles; one of them is even high in the councils of the Wilson Administration. The second category, to which we have the honor of belonging, is persecuted and often imprisoned. Yours also seems to be a distinction without a difference. Don't you think so?
Emma GoldmanWe say that if America has entered the war to make the world safe for democracy, she must first make democracy safe in America.
Emma GoldmanSo-called Individualism is the social and economic laissez-faire: the exploitation of the masses by the classes by means of legal trickery, spiritual debasement and systematic indoctrination of the servile spirit, which process is known as 'education'.
Emma GoldmanThe free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society.
Emma GoldmanMore pernicious than the power of a dictator is that of a class; the most terrible - the tyranny of a majority.
Emma GoldmanIf not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.
Emma GoldmanThe worker who knows the cause of his misery, who understands the make-up of our iniquitous social and industrial system can do more for himself and his kind than Christ and the followers of Christ have ever done for humanity; certainly more than meek patience, ignorance, and submission have done.
Emma Goldman