Political violence is organized violence on the top which creates individual violence at the bottom.
Emma GoldmanThe government will ... go on in the highly democratic method of conscripting American manhood for European slaughter.
Emma GoldmanIt cannot be sufficiently emphasized that revolution is in vain unless inspired by its ultimate ideal. Revolutionary methods must be in tune with revolutionary aims.
Emma GoldmanRedemption through the Cross is worse than damnation, because of the terrible burden it imposes upon humanity, because of the effect it has on the human soul, fettering and paralyzing it with the weight of the burden exacted through the death of Christ.
Emma GoldmanIt is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.
Emma GoldmanJohn Burroughs has stated that experimental study of animals in captivity is absolutely useless. Their character, their habits, their appetites undergo a complete transformation when torn from their soil in field and forest. With human nature caged in a narrow space, whipped daily into submission, how can we speak of its potentialities?
Emma Goldman