EMMA GOLDMAN 1869-1940 “Anarchism and Other Essays”
“EMMA championed women’s equality, free love, worker’s rights, free universal education regardless of race or gender and anarchism.”
IF VOTING CHANGED ANYTHING, THEY’D MAKE IT ILLEGAL.
PEOPLE have only as much liberty as they have intelligence to want and the courage to take.
THE MOST VIOLENT ELEMENT IN SOCIETY IS IGNORANCE.
A REVOLUTION without dancing is not a revolution worth having.
WEALTH MEANS POWER: the power to subdue, to crush, to exploit, the power to enslave, to outrage, to degrade.
ART is a part of the rebellion against the realities of its unfulfilled desire.
IN MODERN CAPITALISM ECONOMIC rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.
IT IS ORGANIZED VIOLENCE on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.
PUBLIC SCHOOL — where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our system of exploitation and oppression.
ANARCHISM STANDS for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion and liberation of the human body from the coercion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. It stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals.
THE MOST VITAL RIGHT IS THE RIGHT TO LOVE AND BE LOVED.
NO REAL SOCIAL CHANGE has ever been brought about without a revolution . . . revolution is but thought carried into action.
CONCEIT, ARROGANCE AND EGOTISM ARE THE ESSENTIALS OF PATRIOTISM.
. . . THE GREATEST BULWARK OF CAPITALISM IS MILITARISM.
LIBERTY will not descend to a people, a people must raise themselves to liberty . . .
HELEN KELLER 1880-1968 “The Story of My Life”
“An American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer. she lost her sight and hearing when she was 19 months.”
THE BEST and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched — they must be felt with the heart.
THE ONLY THING worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.
OPTIMISM is the faith that leads to achievement. nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
CHARACTER cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
THE PLACE BETWEEN your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.
HOPE sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
THE STRUGGLE OF LIFE is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive and godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it.
YOU WILL SUCCEED if you persevere; and you will find joy in overcoming obstacles.
WHEN WE DO THE BEST THAT WE CAN, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
BEAUTY IS IN EVERYTHING, EVEN IN SILENCE & DARKNESS.
GRACE L. BOGGS 1915-2015 “The Next American” “Conversations”
“A Chinese American civil rights and labor activist. She supported the Black Plower movement, feminism and the environment.”
A REVOLUTION that is based on the people exercising their creativity in the midst of devastation is one of the great historical contributions of humankind.
YOU DON’T CHOOSE the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be.
THE ONLY WAY TO SURVIVE IS BY TAKING CARE OF ONE ANOTHER.
KEEP RECOGNIZING that reality is changing and that your ideas have to change. Don’t get stuck in old ideas.
TALK and write in a way that encourages the mutual exchange of ideas and acts like a midwife to people birthing their own ideas.
BEST WISHES TO THE WORLD!