Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.
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Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy nameEmma Goldman
One cannot be too extreme in dealing with social ills; the extreme thing is generally the true thing.
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In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, woman's premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.
Emma Goldman
The political arena leaves one no alternative, one must either be a dunce or a rogue.
Emma Goldman
Oscar Wilde defines a perfect personality as one who develops under perfect conditions, who is not wounded, maimed, or in danger. A perfect personality, then, is only possible in a state of society where man is free to choose the mode of work, the conditions of work, and the freedom to work. One to whom the making of a table, the building of a house, or the tilling of the soil, is what the painting is to the artist and the discovery to the scientist -- the result of inspiration, of intense longing, and deep interest in work as a creative force.
Emma Goldman
served as inspiration for Roger Baldwin, a future founder of the American Civil Liberties Union.
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