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About Emma Goldman

  • Born: June 27, 1869
  • Died: May 14, 1940
  • Occupation: Writer
    • How to raise this dead level of theistic belief is really a matter of life and death for all denominations. therefore their tolerance; but it is a tolerance not of understanding; but of weakness.
    Life And Death Understanding Tolerance
    Marriage is primarily an economic arrangement, an insurance pact. it differs from the ordinary life insurance agreement only in that it is more binding, more exacting.
    Agreement Ordinary Economic
    True, the movement for woman's rights has broken many old fetters, but it has also forged new ones.
    Rights Broken Feminism
    The function of militarism is to kill. it cannot live except through murder.
    Murder Function Militarism
    Christ and his teachings are the embodiment of submission, of inertia, of the denial of life; hence responsible for the things done in their name.
    Teaching Names Atheism
    The conception of gods originated in fear and curiosity. primitive man, unable to understand the phenomena of nature, and harassed by them, saw in every terrifying manifestation some sinister force expressly directed against him; and as ignorance and fear are the parents of all superstition, the troubled fancy of primitive man wove the god idea.
    Ignorance Men Primitive Man
    The most disheartening tendency common among readers is to tear out one sentence from a work, as a criterion of the writer's ideas or personality.
    Ideas Personality Tears
    It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.
    Mind Social Significant
    Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one's self-respect. for jealous people, like dope-fiends, stoop to the lowest level and in the end inspire only disgust and loathing.
    Love Jealousy Dope
    Anarchism, the great leaven of thought, is today permeating every phase of human endeavor.... it is the philosophy of the sovereignty of the individual. it is the theory of social harmony. it is the great, surging, living truth that is reconstructing the world, and that will usher in the dawn.
    Philosophy Anarchy Dawn
    Atheism ... in its philosophic aspect refuses allegiance not merely to a definite concept of god, but it refuses all servitude to the god idea, and opposes the theistic principle as such. gods in their individual function are not half as pernicious as the principle of theism which represents the belief in a supernatural, or even omnipotent, power to rule the earth and man upon it. it is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which atheism is fighting with all its power.
    Fighting Men Ideas
    We americans claim to be a peace-loving people. we hate bloodshed; we are opposed to violence. yet we go into spasms of joy over the possibility of projecting dynamite bombs from flying machines upon helpless citizens. we are ready to hang, electrocute, or lynch anyone, who, from economic necessity, will risk his own life in the attempt upon that of some industrial magnate. yet our hearts swell with pride at the thought that america is becoming the most powerful nation on earth, and that she will eventually plant her iron foot on the necks of all other nations. such is the logic of patriotism.
    Powerful Hate Heart
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