Quote by Emma Goldman
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The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black mans right to his body, or womans right to her soul. – Emma Goldman

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No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time. – Emma Goldman

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great
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Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the fathers curse, mothers moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks. – Emma Goldman

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Romance
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There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics. – Emma Goldman

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Im the only person of distinction who has ever had a depression named for him. – Herbert Hoover

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History

To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesnt matter. – V. S. Naipaul

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Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I cant stop to count it. – Evita Peron

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History

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend. – Byron White

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History

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All heiresses are beautiful. – John Dryden

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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure. – Felix Bloch

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The long way around is the shortcut when everybody knows the shortcut. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth. – Edwin Hubbell Chapin

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