Emma Goldman Quotes
The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and to be loved. Indeed, if partial emancipation is to become a complete and true emancipation of woman, it will have to do away with the ridiculous notion that to be loved, to be sweetheart and mother, is synonymous with being slave or subordinate. It will have to do away with the absurd notion of the dualism of the sexes, or that man and woman represent two antagonistic worlds.
Goldman, Emma. "The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation." Anarchism and Other Essays, Mother Earth Publishing Association, 1910, p. 224.
This statement scandalized some men.
She added a floor amendment which included sex as a prohibited form of discrimination in the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
Jinnah was a modern Islamist who saw the role of females in a modern context. He, like the Indian Hindu leaders were in a sense products of the West and Western government and education. He would be very surprised that in his Pakistan men can murder their female relatives who they believe have dishonored the family, or that women would not be educated in the Madrassas, or that authorities could sentence a female relative of a man deemed guilty of seduction to be gang raped, but that is what happens in modern Pakistan. Jinnah and many of the early leaders believed that their new government could modernize Islam but the control and influence went the other way. Pakistan became a religiously dominated autocracy rather than the democracy that Jinnah foresaw.
Sister of Max Eastman. Women had just obtained the vote, but it was illegal to distribute information about birth control or birth control devices. It was not until 1963 that the Supreme Court nullified criminal statutes against distributing birth control devices.
She was right in the sense that women’s suffrage was most successful when the women—without regard to socio economic class—were involved, as were men, many of whom were strong feminists. Opposing women’s suffrage has always been many men and a substantial number of women. Making a major change in a society takes all the help and allies on can get. See {637761} for a similar Italian view. In the final analysis, it was the men who had to vote to give women the vote, so feminist men were particularly important.
Emma Goldman was an anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and speeches. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century.
