To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.
Category Archive: Emma Goldman
Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism.
Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.
All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves.
Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul.
The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the purpose of human sacrifice.
The most violent element in society is ignorance.
On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable.