Emma Goldman Quotes

It is often said that Anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We do see them only too well, and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forest of prejudice that besets us.

Fight the power that be. Fight the power.

Insurrection is an art, and like all arts it has its laws

The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence.

Organize! Educate! Agitate!

There’s no reason why an anarchist can’t be a saint.

Only force would produce social change.

The last book I read was Noam Chomsky on anarchism; maybe I will become an anarchist.

The absolute key issue is: how do you create enough political pressure? It's up to us to create that political will and there are tried and tested techniques for doing that. So we're talking about the need for civil disobedience that escalates into a rebellion and uprising.

Change comes when people are willing to commit acts of peaceful civil disobedience.

You can't change the world through the parliamentary system.

Anarchists have always gone against the grain, and that's been a place of hope.

Start your own revolution, cut out the middleman In a perfect world we'd all sing in tune But this is reality so give me some room So join the struggle while you may The Revolution is just a t-shirt away

The revolution cannot be funded. It's not the imagination of trusts and foundations that's going to bring real change.

One does not necessarily have to wait for a revolutionary situation: it can be created.

If I rule out violent anarchism, there remains pacifist, anti-nationalist, anti-capitalist, moral, and anti-democratic anarchism (i.e., that which is hostile to the falsified democracy of bourgeois states). There remains the anarchism which acts by means of persuasion, by the creation of small groups and networks, denouncing falsehood and oppression, aiming at a true overturning of authorities of all kinds as people at the bottom speak and organize themselves.

I intend to go up there and kick the system over, not try to change it.

The imperialists see extremists everywhere. It's not that we are extremists. It's that the world is waking up. It's waking up all over, and people are standing up.

Movements don't die, because struggle doesn't die.

On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.

If things aren't working for us, it is our duty to rise up.

I've got revolutionary blood in my blood.

I don't put work in an art gallery because the next day I want people to march in the streets.

Every successful social movement in this country's history has used disruption as a strategy to fight for social change. Whether it was the Boston Tea Party to the sit-ins at lunch counters throughout the South, no change has been won without disruptive action.

I am not a politician. I am just a simple person who has come to break down this system.