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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 the denial of life and joy. I insisted that our Cause could not expect me to become a nun and that the movement would not be turned into a cloister. If it meant that, I did not want it.
— Emma Goldman Living My Life
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The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought.
— Emma Goldman
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No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
— Emma Goldman
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No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
— Emma Goldman
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Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
— Emma Goldman
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There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.
— Emma Goldman
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