January 2011
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“The most violent element in society is ignorance.”
– Emma Goldman (via greenstate)
December 2010
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“All human experience teaches that methods and means cannot be separated from the...”
– Emma Goldman, My Further Disillusionment in Russia (via elitc)
September 2010
2 posts
watchmyheartgrow:
“I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases. I demand freedom for both sexes, freedom of action, freedom in love and freedom in motherhood.” -Emma Goldman, feminist anarchist, 1897
“First, by asserting herself as a personality, and not as a sex commodity....”
– Emma Goldman (via ladycaloon)
August 2010
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July 2010
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June 2010
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“Marriage and love have nothing in common; they are as far apart as the poles;...”
– Emma Goldman, “Marriage and Love.” (via carsonsuggs)
A+ shit right here. I could NOT agree more. If people want to get married, fine. But, for me, marriage is an outdated, patriarchal bag of crap. And I say this as someone who has been married. I shouldn’t have to LEGALLY BIND myself to someone for...
May 2010
43 posts
Fuck Yeah Radical Literature!: Zine: Anarchism -... →
Published by Rochester SDS
Note: Printed Read
URL: http://viewer.zoho.com/docs/aiKaO
Opening:
Ever reviled, accursed, ne’er understood, Though art the grisly terror of our age. “Wreck of all order,” cry the multitude, “Art though, and war and murder’s endless rage.” O, let them cry. To them…
“Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.”
– Emma Goldman, Anarchism: What It Really Stands For (1910) (via blogut)
“I wanted Sasha bailed out first because of his injured leg, which still needed...”
– Emma Goldman, in her autobiography Living My Life. “The Tombs” was a nickname for the main jail in New York City at that time. (via ascendingcoherence)
“It was the first time since 1893 that I had been arrested, but, constantly...”
– Emma Goldman, in her autobiography Living My Life. When I read this aloud to W., he said, “the same reason I do it!” (Though I doubt Emma Goldman would take a book along to walk the dog. Ahem.) One of the amusing things about Emma is that, though she doesn’t like being arrested, she always manages...
“All wars are wars among thieves who are too cowardly to fight and who therefore...”
– Emma Goldman (via ihatethismess)
“Art is part of a rebellion against the realities of its unfilled desires.”
– Emma Goldman (via hersixth)
My wo-man, Emma Goldman →
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“I’d rather have roses on my table, than diamonds on my neck.”
– Emma Goldman (via sweetoctober)
“I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the...”
– Emma Goldman
I’ve been reading a lot about “Red Emma” and a number of other radical females. I’m particularly intrigued by the aggressiveness exhibited by Emma and how quickly she was able to change her situation (from factory girl to dissident journalist). Perhaps it is her legacy that is most...
“The most violent element in society is ignorance.”
– Emma Goldman (via andreaisace)
“The individual and society have waged a relentless and bloody battle for ages,...”
– Emma Goldman in Anarchism and Other Essays, p. 51 (via socialautonomy)
210 E. 13th Street New York, NY 10003
sgandhi:
Just found out that I live on the same street that Emma Goldman used to live on! WOOT!
nice!
“Woman’s demand for equal suffrage is based largely on the contention that woman...”
– Emma Goldman, “Woman Suffrage”
Emphasis mine.
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“the problem that confronts us today… is how to be oneself and in oneness with...”
– emma goldman. (via lapetiteprince)
“Indeed, conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. Let me...”
– Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty (via melancohol)
“I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for...”
– Emma Goldman (via woopsfeminism)
humanequalsgarbage:
“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. Man has subdued bodies, but all the power on earth has been unable to subdue love. Man has conquered whole nations, but all his armies could not conquer love. Man has chained and fettered the spirit, but he has been utterly helpless before love.” -...
“No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness, and generosity...”
– Emma Goldman (via caraobrien)
“The only demand that property recognizes, is its own gluttonous appetite for...”
– emma goldman(via nichtort)
“The powers that have for centuries been engaged in enslaving the masses have...”
– Emma Goldman, Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty (via loudandsoft)
“The American workingman has suffered so much at the hands of the soldier, State...”
– Emma Goldman, Patriotism: A Menace to Liberty (via loudandsoft)
“I can see the bright green strip of grass beneath the wall, and the clear blue...”
– Leon Trotsky’s last testament before Stalin popped him off (via treesongs)
“At the end of the Tenth Congress, after peace negotiations had failed, Trotsky gave the order for the suppression of the Kronstadt Rebellion, the last major revolt against Bolshevik rule.[21] Years later, Anarchist Emma...
“Anarchism, at least how I understand it, leaves posterity free to develop its...”
– Emma Goldman, Anarchism and Other Essays (p. 43) (via fuckyeahanarchism)
“Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of...”
– Emma Goldman (via adamquinn)
“Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen, the subject this noon is, “An Anarchist...”
– Emma Goldman
. :: nobodyargueswithaharpoon :: .
(via resmc)
“The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish...”
–
EMMA GOLDMAN, Anarchism and Other Essays
(via fuckyeahradicalquotes)
(via feministfury)
“Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a...”
– EMMA GOLDMAN, Feminism (via fuckyeahradicalquotes) (via feministfury)
“To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman...”
–
EMMA GOLDMAN, Anarchism and Other Essays
(via fuckyeahradicalquotes)
(via feministfury)
“First, by asserting herself as a personality, and not a sex commodity. Second,...”
– Emma Goldman (via feministfury) (via vegetablesforbreakfast) (via guerrillarachel) (via elengberg)
“Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.”
–
Emma Goldman
. :: tigersmilk:earlyfrost :: .
(via resmc)