4 Quotes by Emma Goldman about names


  • Author Emma Goldman
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    'Rugged individualism' has meant all the 'individualism' for the masters, while the people are regimented into a slave caste to serve a handful of self-seeking 'supermen.' America is perhaps the best representative of this kind of individualism, in whose name political tyranny and social oppression are defended and held up as virtues; while every aspiration and attempt of man to gain freedom and social opportunity to live is denounced as 'un-American' and evil in the name of that same individuality.

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  • Author Emma Goldman
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    In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, womans premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.

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  • Author Emma Goldman
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    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.

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