Russian-born American anarchist (1869–1940)
She gave speeches that packed halls and got her thrown in prison — for talking about anarchism, birth control, and why the state itself was the problem. Deported from America, disillusioned by the Soviets, she spent decades as the most uncompromising voice on the left.
Born in 1869 in Kaunas to a Lithuanian Jewish family, Emma Goldman came to the United States in 1885 and found her cause after the Haymarket affair turned her toward anarchism. With Alexander Berkman — lover, collaborator, lifelong friend — she plotted to assassinate industrialist Henry Clay Frick in 1892; the attempt failed, Berkman went to prison for 22 years, and Goldman spent the next decades lecturing to thousands, founding the journal Mother Earth in 1906, and cycling through arrests for incitement and distributing birth control literature. Sentenced in 1917 for anti-draft conspiracy, sh…
Sourced, dated quotes from Emma Goldman
The statements published in American newspapers which have been attributed to me are absolute falsifications full of lying insinuations. I love America of the common people.
I hope I shall never live to see Anarchism become thoroughly respectable, for then I shall have to look for a new ideal.
When we can't dream any longer we die.
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.
The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief...
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