Who is Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman (1869–1940) was an anarchist 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.

Born in Kaunas, Russian Empire (now Lithuania), to a Jewish family, Goldman emigrated to the United States in 1885. Attracted to anarchism after the Chicago Haymarket affair, Goldman became a writer and a renowned lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women's rights, and social issues, attracting crowds of thousands. She and anarchist writer Alexander Berkman, her lover and lifelong friend, planned to assassinate industrialist and financier Henry Clay Frick as an act of propaganda of the deed. Frick survived the attempt on his life in 1892, and Berkman was sentenced t...
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Emma Goldman Poems

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Emma Goldman Quotes

• Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world.
• Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.
• No real social change has ever been brought about without a revolution... revolution is but thought carried into action.
• The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being.
• 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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Comments about Emma Goldman

• Unknownleadere: if voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal --emma goldman
• Retro_gent: "look what you made us do!" is an old trope of the american left. it was emma goldman's response the assassination of president mckinley.
• Agtgibson: kropotkin mentions anabaptists in "mutual aid". don't see them in william godwin or emma goldman. think this is going to be a new wee genealogy for me to trace down. radical reformation in anarchist thought.
• Logarhailcrom: here's a portrait of emma goldman i did over 10 years ago now.
• Ruffphilip: emma goldman, drumming-up support for the spanish anarchists, at a may day rally in hyde park, london, 1937.

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