If 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 State is a term for the legislative and administrative machinery whereby certain business of the people is transacted, and badly so.
Emma GoldmanPeople have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.
Emma GoldmanModern woman is no longer satisfied to be the beloved of a man; she looks for understanding, comradeship; she wants to be treated as a human being and not simply as an object for sexual gratification.
Emma GoldmanI was called before the head matron, a tall woman with a stolid face. She began taking my pedigree. What religion? was the first question. None, I am an atheist. Atheism is prohibited here. You will have to go to church. I replied that I would do nothing of the kind. I did not believe in anything the Church stood for and, not being a hypocrite, I would not attend.
Emma Goldman