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Mother of Revolutionary, Social Anarchism, Influential Feminist, Writer, Philosopher, Activist, Multiple Exile, Convicted Terrorist, Jewish-Russian-Born Emigrant to America
: A Russian-born 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. (From: Wikipedia.org.)
Quote #3 on Political Struggle Quotes >> State and The Masses
“Yet how long would authority and private property exist, if not for the willingness of the mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen. The Socialist demagogues know that as well as I, but they maintain the myth of the virtues of the majority, because their very scheme of life means the perpetuation of power. And how could the latter be acquired without numbers? Yes, authority, coercion, and dependence rest on the mass, but never freedom or the free unfoldment of the individual, never the birth of a free society.”
Source: "Minorities Versus Majorities," by Emma Goldman, Third revised edition, New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1917.
"Minorities Versus Majorities," by Emma Goldman, Third revised edition, New York: Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1917.
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