Frases célebres de Emma Goldman
“Antes de que podamos perdonarnos unos a otros, tenemos que entendernos.”
Fuente: Israel, Ricardo. El libro de las verdades. Citas citables. Editorial RIL Editores, 2011. p. 149.
“Si no puedo bailar, tu revolución no me interesa.”
Fuente: Citado en Claiborne, Shane. Revolución irresistible. Editorial Zondervan, 2011. ISBN 9780829758177
Fuente: Citado en Ferguson, Kathy E. Emma Goldman: Political Thinking in the Streets. Edición ilustrada. Editorial Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2011. ISBN 9781442210486. p. 218.
Emma Goldman Frases y Citas
“Prefiero tener rosas en mi mesa que diamantes en mi cuello.”
Fuente: Citado en Santiago Fernández de Obeso, José Francisco. New York send woman. Edición ilustrada. Editorial Lulu.com, 2016. ISBN 9781326561536. p. 171.
Fuente: Citado en Hernández Padilla, Salvador. El magonismo: historia de una pasión libertaria, 1900-1922. Ediciones Era, 1988. ISBN 9789684111998. p. 11.
Original: «Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think. The widespread mental indolence, so prevalent in society, proves this to be only too true. Rather than to go to the bottom of any given idea, to examine into it's origing and meaning, most people will either condem it alltogether, or rely on some superficial or perjudicial definition of non-essentials.»
Fuente: Goldman, Emma. Anarchism and Other Essays. Editorial BookRix, 2017. ISBN 9783736804524.
Emma Goldman: Frases en inglés
p. 219 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2162/2162-h/2162-h.htm#emancipation
The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation (1906)
"The Individual, Society and the State" (1940) http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/goldman/works/1940/individual.htm
Contexto: The strongest bulwark of authority is uniformity; the least divergence from it is the greatest crime. The wholesale mechanisation of modern life has increased uniformity a thousandfold. It is everywhere present, in habits, tastes, dress, thoughts and ideas. Its most concentrated dullness is "public opinion." Few have the courage to stand out against it. He who refuses to submit is at once labelled "queer," "different," and decried as a disturbing element in the comfortable stagnancy of modern life.
"Socialism: Caught in the Political Trap", a lecture (c. 1912), published in Red Emma Speaks, Part 1 (1972) edited by Alix Kates Shulman
“I do not believe in God, because I believe in man.”
Responding to audience questions during a speech in Detroit (1898); as recounted in Living My Life (1931), p. 207; quoted by Annie Laurie Gaylor in Women Without Superstition, p. 382
Contexto: Ladies and gentlemen, I came here to avoid as much as possible treading on your corns. I had intended to deal only with the basic issue of economics that dictates our lives from the cradle to the grave, regardless of our religion or moral beliefs. I see now that it was a mistake. If one enters a battle, he cannot be squeamish about a few corns. Here, then, are my answers: I do not believe in God, because I believe in man. Whatever his mistakes, man has for thousands of years past been working to undo the botched job your God has made.
As to killing rulers, it depends entirely on the position of the ruler. If it is the Russian Czar, I most certainly believe in dispatching him to where he belongs. If the ruler is as ineffectual as an American President, it is hardly worth the effort. There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth. As for the gentleman who asked if free love would not build more houses of prostitution, my answer is: They will all be empty if the men of the future look like him.
The Philosophy of Atheism (1916)
What is Patriotism? (1908)
"Prisons: A Social Crime and Failure" (1911) http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/anarchist_Archives/goldman/aando/prisons.html
As quoted in [Robert Andrews, The New Penguin Dictionary of Modern Quotations, https://books.google.com/books?id=VK0vR4fsaigC&pg=PT657, 30 October 2003, Penguin Books Limited, 978-0-14-196531-4, 657]
The Individual, Society and the State (1940)
Anarchism, What it Really Stands For (1910)
Anarchism, What it Really Stands For (1910)
“There is no hope even that woman, with her right to vote, will ever purify politics.”
p. 219 http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2162/2162-h/2162-h.htm#emancipation
The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation (1906)
