“protect what belongs to you-what you yourselves have produced, and in the first place you ought to take bread.”
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Emma Goldman
Emma Goldman was a Russian-born anarchist revolutionary, political activist, and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century.
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culture · Russian-born anarchist (1869–1940) · anarchist · journalist · political philosopher · women's rights activist · lecturer · publisher · peace activist · autobiographer · nurse · writer · also Emma Goldman, Goldman
Born 27 June 1869 · Died 14 May 1940 · Q79969
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It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals and is so crassly indifferent to the various gradations and variations of gender and their great significance in life.
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2026· 3 entries
“It is a tragedy, I feel, that people of a different sexual type are caught in a world which shows so little understanding for homosexuals and is so crassly indifferent to the various gradations and variations of gender and their great significance in life.”
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“Two years imprisonment for having made an uncompromising stand for one”
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1980· 2 entries
“Feminism: The Chicano and Anglo Versions-A Historical Analysis”
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“I found California seething with discontent... The revolution in Mexico was the expression of a people awakened to the great economic and political wrongs in their land. The struggle inspired large numbers of militant workers in America, among them many anarchists and the I.W.W. [Industrial Workers of the World], to help their Mexican brothers across the border. Thoughtful persons on the Coast, intellectuals as well as proletarians, were imbued with the spirit behind the Mexican revolution.”
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1973· 1 entry
Shulman was asked by a printer friend for a quotation by Goldman for use on a T-shirt
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1970· 1 entry
Dover Press reissued Goldman's autobiography, Living My Life, and in 1972, feminist writer Alix Kates Shulman issued a collection of Goldman's writing and speeches, Red Emma Speaks
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1940· 10 entries
Died 1940-05-14.
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“If I can’t dance, it’s not my revolution. (ang.)”
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“Bez względu na obecną tendencję wiodącą ku silnym władcom, totalitarnym państwom, lewicowym dyktaturom, moje przekonania pozostały niezachwiane. Wierzę w jednostkę i w zdolność wolnych jednostek do wspólnego wysiłku. Pod tym względem moje życie i moja praca były sukcesem.”
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“W istocie to zarozumiałość, arogancja i egoizm stanowią o esencji patriotyzmu.”
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“Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labelled Utopian. (ang.)”
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“Nienasycone monstrum - wojna - ograbia kobietę ze wszystkiego, co jest jej drogie i cenne. Zabiera jej braci, ukochanych i synów, w zamian dając żywot samotny i pełen rozpaczy.”
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“Miłość jest najsilniejszym i najgłębszym uczuciem w naszym życiu, przynosi nadzieję, radość, uniesienia. Miłość przeczy wszystkim prawom, wszystkim konwencjom. Miłość - najbardziej wyzwolony, najsilniejszy kruszec ludzkiego losu. Jak można taką potężną moc wzrostu sprowadzić do małżeństwa, tego nędznego, wynaturzonego chwastu wyhodowanego przez państwo i Kościół?”
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“Cóż to za dziwna zdobycz patriotyzmu - zmienić myślącą istotę w lojalną maszynę!”
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“I feel sure that the police are helping us more than I could do in ten years. They are making more anarchists than the most prominent people connected with the anarchist cause could make in ten years. If they will only continue I shall be very grateful; they will save me lots of work.”
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“Religia, a szczególnie religia chrześcijańska, skazała kobietę na los osoby podwładnej, niewolnicy. Ogranicza jej naturę i więzi duszę; a przecież chrześcijaństwo w kobiecie ma największego sprzymierzeńca, najbardziej oddaną czcicielkę. Istotnie można rzec, że religia dawno już przestałaby grać rolę w życiu ludzi, gdyby nie poparcie, jakiego jej udzielają kobiety.”
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1934· 1 entry
To generally positive press coverage—except from Communist publications
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1933· 1 entry
Goldman received permission to lecture in the United States under the condition that she speak only about drama and her autobiography—but not current political events
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1928· 1 entry
Began writing her autobiography, with the support of a group of American admirers, including journalist H
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1927· 1 entry
Just in time to receive news of the impending executions of Italian anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in Boston
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1925· 1 entry
The spectre of deportation loomed again, but James Colton, a Scottish anarchist Goldman had first met in Glasgow whilst on a speaking tour in 1895, had offered to marry her and provide British citizenship
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1923· 1 entry
Published a book about her experiences, My Disillusionment in Russia
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1919· 1 entry
Goldman refused to answer questions about her beliefs, on the grounds that her American citizenship invalidated any attempt to deport her under the Anarchist Exclusion Act, which could be enforced only against non-citize
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1917· 3 entries
Goldman and Berkman were arrested during a raid of their offices, in which authorities seized "a wagon load of anarchist records and propaganda"
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Nearly 300 patrolmen and detectives surrounded the hall, police automobiles equipped with searchlights patrolled the streets, federal agents mingled in the audience while stenographers recorded every word spoken, and thr
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Goldman and Berkman were sentenced to two years in jail for conspiring to "induce persons not to register" for the newly instated draft
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1916· 3 entries
As she was about to give another public lecture
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Under the slogan "He kept us out of the war", at the start of his second term, he announced that Germany's continued deployment of unrestricted submarine warfare was sufficient cause for the U
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Goldman was arrested for giving lessons in public on how to use contraceptives
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1915· 1 entry
Goldman conducted a nationwide speaking tour, in part to raise awareness about contraception options
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1912· 1 entry
Is an example of their persistence in the fight for free speech despite risking their safety
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1910· 1 entry
“Light and Shadows in the Life of an Avant-Guard”
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1908· 1 entry
After his conviction had revoked hers as well
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1907· 1 entry
While Goldman toured the country to raise funds to keep it operating
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1906· 2 entries
Goldman decided to start a publication, "a place of expression for the young idealists in arts and letters"
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Goldman founded the anarchist journal Mother Earth
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1901· 1 entry
Leon Czolgosz, an unemployed factory worker and anarchist, shot U
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1897· 1 entry
Wrote: "I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases
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1892· 2 entries
Goldman joined with Berkman and Stein in opening an ice cream shop in Worcester, Massachusetts
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And Berkman was sentenced to 22 years in prison
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1885· 2 entries
Helena and Emma arrived at New York City's Castle Garden, the entry for immigrants
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Her sister Helena made plans to move to New York in the United States to join her sister Lena and her husband
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1869· 1 entry
Born 1869-06-27.
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1860· 1 entry
“Whatever love she had had died with the young man to whom she had been married at the age of fifteen.”
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