“The advent of Dictatorship and Fascism has resulted in appalling indifference to the most harrowing crimes.”
Category: Emma Goldman
“No, not only Jews, but thousands of political dissenters have been tortured and done to death in the hideous concentration camps or on the block.”
“Future historians will wonder at the peculiar phenomenon of American war psychology…”
“You want to send us to Zion? We do not want to go…”
“There are many who perceive that they have been tricked out of their homes and jobs by a cheap phraseology, the emptiness and deception of which they now feel keenly enough.”
“To perpetuate stupidity and ignorance, nothing could be invented more effective than the Vote.”
“Half a dozen great nations have been engaged in killing and trying to kill each other as quickly as possible, and the resources of science have been utilized to the utmost in fashioning the most diabolical weapons of war that the human mind could imagine.”
“The future belongs to us and to our social philosophy. For it is the only social ideal that teaches independent thinking and direct participation of the workers in their economic struggle.”
“‘Finding is keeping’ is a good motto for conquistadores and imperialists, but not, I should have thought, for Anarchists.”
“Stupid error of a maddened bourgeoisie! The death of an agitator does not put an end to discontent.”
“That the spirit of perverse cruelty to persecute and humiliate human beings for no other offence except that they lead their own lives, is making itself felt even today, no one familiar with the activity of our moral censors can possibly deny.”
“… the United States Government perpetrates outrages in Santo Domingo and Haiti of the same nature.”
“…the British militarists in Ireland knew well what they were doing — they were killing the two men who were the coolest, the most intelligent, and the most resolute enemies of oppression alive in Ireland.”
“…in our war-drunk age, with the patriotic frothing of the press, the brutality of the vigilantes and the general confusion of our life, Jefferson [prison] may yet prove a preferable retreat.”
“‘The War to end War,’ ‘the War for Democracy.’ What a lying face was hidden under the hideous mask of democracy.”
“My book, in which are collected my essays on AntiMilitarism, Communism, and other Radicalism, has been prohibited and many copies seized by the Government, but the cunning publisher secretly sold 1,500 copies before the policemen came.”
“We oppose conscription because we are internationalists, anti-militarists, and opposed to all wars waged by capitalistic governments. We will fight for what we choose to fight for; we will never fight simply because we are ordered to fight.”
