Emma Goldman

It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.

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.

If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.

Democracy must first be safe for America before it can be safe for the world.

The majority represent a mass of cowards, willing to accept him who mirror its own soul and mind poverty.

The individual is the true reality of life. A cosmos in himself, he does not exist for the State, nor for that abstraction called "society," or the "nation," which is only a collection of individuals.

Salvation lies in an energetic march onward towards a brighter and clearer future.

Patriotism is a menace to liberty.

No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution - Revolution is but thought carried into action. Every effort for progress, for enlightenment, for science, for religious, political, and economic liberty, emanates from the minority, and not from the mass.