all government, whatever its forms or pretenses, is a dead weight that paralyzes the free spirit and activities of the masses.
Emma GoldmanThe dominant, almost general, idea of revolution - particularly the Socialist idea - is that revolution is a violent change of social conditions through which one social class, the working class, becomes dominant over another class, the capitalist class. It is the conception of a purely physical change, and as such it involves only political scene shifting and institutional rearrangements
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 Goldman