It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.
Emma GoldmanI want freedom, the right to self-expression , everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things.
Emma GoldmanConceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot consider themselves nobler, better, grander, more intelligent than those living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others.
Emma GoldmanLeo Tolstoy ... defines patriotism as the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.
Emma Goldman