Prostitution, although hounded, imprisoned, and chained, is nevertheless the greatest triumph of Puritanism.
Category Archive: Emma Goldman
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved.
The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
Morality and its victim, the mother – what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?
If I can’t dance, I don’t want to be part of your revolution.
Since every effort in our educational life seems to be directed toward making of the child a being foreign to itself, it must of necessity produce individuals foreign to one another, and in everlasting antagonism with each other.
Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution… revolution is but thought carried into action.
When we can’t dream any longer we die.
There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.