"People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take."

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Source : Emma Goldman (1914). “The Social Significance of the Modern Drama”

Emma Goldman

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“When a daughter loses a mother, the intervals between grief responses lengthen over time, but her longing never disappears. It always hovers at the edge of her awareness, prepared to surface at any time, in any place, in the least expected ways.”

Source : Hope Edelman (2014). “Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.37, Da Capo Press
“I like people. I like animals, too-whales and quail, dinosaurs and dodos. But I like human beings especially, and I am unhappy that the pool of human germ plasm, which determines the nature of the human race, is deteriorating.”
“The improvement of relations with German is positive, but this does not mean that we no longer have very important problems.”
“They say kids today don't know the value of a dollar. They certainly do know the value of a dollar. That's why they ask for five.”
“Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!”
“An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport,”

Source : "Why buses represent democracy in action". TED Talk, www.ted.com. September 2013.
“I am realistic â€“ I expect miracles.”
“For I am well aware that scarcely a single point is discussed in this volume on which facts cannot be adduced, often apparently leading to conclusions directly opposite to those at which I have arrived. A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question.”

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