What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!
Emma Goldman'Rugged individualism' has meant all the 'individualism' for the masters, while the people are regimented into a slave caste to serve a handful of self-seeking 'supermen.' America is perhaps the best representative of this kind of individualism, in whose name political tyranny and social oppression are defended and held up as virtues; while every aspiration and attempt of man to gain freedom and social opportunity to live is denounced as 'un-American' and evil in the name of that same individuality.
Emma Goldmanreadiness,' far far from assuring peace, has at all times and in all countries been instrumental in precipitating armed conflicts.
Emma GoldmanIf not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.
Emma Goldman