The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime.
Emma GoldmanTrue, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.
Emma GoldmanNo great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
Emma GoldmanThe emotions of the ignorant man are continuously kept at a pitch by the most blood-curdling stories about Anarchism. Not a thing too outrageous to be employed against this philosophy and its exponents. Therefore Anarchism represents to the unthinking what the proverbial bad man does to the child,-a black monster bent on swallowing everything; in short, destruction and violence.
Emma Goldman