"Not only my arrest but the others smack of the Haymarket. The police are very much in disrepute all over the country, and they wish to do something to...












If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.
More Emma Goldman quotes
"The political superstition is still holding sway over the hearts and minds of the masses, but the true lovers of liberty will have no more to do with ...
"Give us what belongs to us in peace, and if you don't give it to us in peace, we will take it by force.
"Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
"So long as tyranny exists, in whatever form, man's deepest aspiration must resist it as inevitably as man must breathe.
"People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.
"I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from convention and prejudice, should demand ...
"Ask for work. If they don't give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread.
"The philosophy of Atheism represents a concept of life without any metaphysical Beyond or Divine Regulator. It is the concept of an actual, real world...
"No 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...