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... EMMA LAZARUS No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is ... EMMA GOLDMAN Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to be free,
The wretched refus... EMMA LAZARUS Morality and its victim, the mother -- what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrib... EMMA GOLDMAN Crime is naught but misdirected energy. EMMA GOLDMAN No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a ... EMMA GOLDMAN Poor human nature, what horrible crimes have been committed in thy name! EMMA GOLDMAN The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vit... EMMA GOLDMAN Jealousy is indeed a poor medium to secure love, but it is a secure medium to destroy one EMMA GOLDMAN Indeed, the keynote of government is injustice. With the arrogance and self-sufficiency of the King... EMMA GOLDMAN When one has been threatened with a great injustice, one accepts a smaller as a favour. EMMA GOLDMAN Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elo... EMMA GOLDMAN The State is the altar of political freedom and, like the religious altar, it is maintained for the ... EMMA GOLDMAN The road winds up the hill to meet the height; Beyond the locust hedge it curves from sight -- And y... EMMA CARLETON Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possib... EMMA GOLDMAN Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there. EMMA GOLDMAN To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods a... EMMA GOLDMAN Anarchism asserts the possibility of an organization without discipline, fear, or punishment, and wi... EMMA GOLDMAN Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the consciousness of himself; which maintains t... EMMA GOLDMAN Anarchism, really stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the lib... EMMA GOLDMAN The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopu... EMMA GOLDMAN It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a mora... EMMA GOLDMAN We make everything funny, you wouldn't believe the things we laugh at. We're always laughing-people ... EMMA BUNTON