The Fathers of the Church can well afford to preach the gospel of Christ. It contains nothing dangerous to the regime of authority and wealth; it stands for self-denial and self-abnegation, for penance and regret, and is absolutely inert in the face of every [in]dignity, every outrage imposed upon mankind.
Emma GoldmanSocial and economic well-being will become a reality only through the zeal, courage, the non-compromising determination of intelligent minorities, and not through the mass.
Emma Goldmanreligion and morality are a much better whip to keep people in submission than even the club and the gun.
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