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"I believe in the fire of love and the sweat of truth."
- Assata Shakur
"The true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love."
- Che Guevara
"Of all ideologies, anarchy is the one that addresses liberty and equalitarian relations in a realistic and ultimate fashion. It is consistent with each individual having an opportunity to live a complete and total life. With anarchy, the society as a whole not only maintains itself at an equal expense to all, but progresses in a creative process unhindered by any class, caste or party. This is because the goals of anarchy don't include replacing one ruling class with another, neither in the guise of a fairer boss or as a party."
- Kuwasi Balagoon
"We need to be weapons of mass construction, weapons of mass love. It's not enough just to change the system. We need to change ourselves."
- Assata Shakur
"We should create media outlets that help to educate our people and our children, not annihilate their minds."
- Assata Shakur
"Freedom is the right to grow. It's the right to blossom. Freedom is the right to be yourself!"
- Assata Shakur
“Men and women ... do you not realize that the State is the worst enemy you have? It is a machine that crushes you in order to sustain the ruling class, your masters. Like naïve children you put your trust in your political leaders. You make it possible for them to creep into your confidence, only to have them betray you to the first bidder. But even where there is no direct betrayal, the labour politicians make common cause with your enemies to keep you in leash, to prevent your direct action. The State is the pillar of capitalism, and it is ridiculous to expect any redress from it.”
- Emma Goldman
"People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take."
- Emma Goldman
"If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal."
- Emma Goldman
"The most violent element in society is ignorance."
- Emma Goldman
"The most absurd apology for authority and law is that they serve to diminish crime. Aside from the fact that the State is itself the greatest criminal, breaking every written and natural law, stealing in the form of taxes, killing in the form of war and capital punishment, it has come to an absolute standstill in coping with crime. It has failed utterly to destroy or even minimize the horrible scourge of its own creation."
- Emma Goldman
"Some people never seem to learn from experience. No matter how often they had seen the lion devour the lamb, they continued to cling to the hope that the nature of the beast might change. If only the lion could get to know the lamb better, they argued, or talk matters over."
- Emma Goldman
"How long would authority ... exist, if not for the willingness of the mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen."
- Emma Goldman
"'What I believe' is a process rather than a finality. Finalities are for gods and governments, not for the human intellect."
- Emma Goldman
"The ultimate end of all revolutionary social change is to establish the sanctity of human life, the dignity of man, the right of every human being to liberty and well-being."
- Emma Goldman
"Poor America, of what avail is all her wealth, if the individuals comprising the nation are wretchedly poor? If they live in squalor, in filth, in crime, with hope and joy gone, a homeless, soulless army of human prey."
- Emma Goldman
"Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world."
- Emma Goldman