Quotes by Emma Goldman

"When we can't dream any longer we die."

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"Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another."

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"The most unpardonable sin in society is independence of thought."

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"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 that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable."

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"Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?"

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

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"No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action."

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"To the indefinite, uncertain mind of the American radical the most contradictory ideas and methods are possible. The result is a sad chaos in the radical movement, a sort of intellectual hash, which has neither taste nor character."

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"The most violent element in society is ignorance."

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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."

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"Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open."

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"The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man's right to his body, or woman's right to her soul."

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"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."

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