"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...
Love is it's own protection.
More Emma Goldman quotes
"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.
"Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love...
"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 tha...
"People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.
"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.
"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.
"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.
"Love, the strongest and deepest element in all life, the harbinger of hope, of joy, of ecstasy; love, the defier of all laws, of all conventions; love...
"[M]an has as much liberty as he is willing to take.
"A thorough investigation would prove that nine crimes out of ten could be traced, directly or indirectly, to our economic and social iniquities, to ou...
"But what about human nature? Can it be changed? And if not, will it endure under Anarchism?Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed...
"The contention that a standing army and navy is the best security of peace is about as logical as the claim that the most peaceful citizen is he who g...
"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,...