Two short excerpts:
1. Commemorating Emma Goldman
recording Goldman's June 27th, 1919 birthday spent in prison for protesting
against conscription during World War One, as well as an image from a
commemorative pamphlet celebrating her 70th birthday in 1939.
Jessica Moran Assistant Editor Emma Goldman Papers UC Berkeley
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/index.html
Introduction
Emma Goldman (1869--1940) stands as a major figure in the history of
American radicalism and feminism. An influential and well-known anarchist of
her day, Goldman was an early advocate of free speech, birth control,
women's equality and independence, and union organization. Her criticism of
mandatory conscription of young men into the military during World War I led
to a two-year imprisonment, followed by her deportation in 1919. For the
rest of her life until her death in 1940, she continued to participate in
the social and political movements of her age, from the Russian Revolution
to the Spanish Revolution and Civil War.
2. Emma Goldman: "Anarchism Defined:
By DC
December 21, 2011
http://rekolektiv.wordpress.com/2011/12/21/emma-goldman-d-anarchism-defined/
Originally published in "The Agitator" (1910 - 1912 Seattle, WA).
The emotions of the ignorant are continuously kept at a high pitch by the
most blood-curdling stories about anarchism. Not a thing is too outrageous
to be employed against this philosophy and its exponents. Therefore
anarchism represents to the unthinking what the proverbial bad man does to
the child--a black monster, bent on swallowing everything; in short,
destruction and violence.
Destruction and violence! How is the ordinary man to know that the most
violent element in society is ignorance. Anarchism is the philosophy of a
new social order based on liberty unrestricted by man-made law; the theory
that all forms of government rest on violence and are therefore wrong and
harmful as well as unnecessary.
