I demand the independence of woman, her right to support herself; to live for herself; to love whomever she pleases, or as many as she pleases. I demand freedom for both sexes, freedom of action, freedom in love and freedom in motherhood.
What a strange development of patriotism that turns a thinking being into a loyal machine!
The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or woman’s right to her soul.
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 be loved.
No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.
If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.
In modern capitalism economic exploitation rather than political oppression is the real enemy of the people.
Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think.
To the moralist prostitution does not consist so much in the fact that the woman sells her body, but rather that she sells it out of wedlock.
Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.
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.
Woman, essentially a purist, is naturally bigoted and relentless in her effort to make others as good as she thinks they ought to be.
In the true sense one’s native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.
People have only as much liberty as they have the intelligence to want and the courage to take.
Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.
If not for the direct action of a John Brown and his comrades, America would still trade in the flesh of the black man.
The spirit of militarism has already permeated all walks of life. Indeed, I am convinced that militarism is a greater danger here than anywhere else, because of the many bribes capitalism holds out to those whom it wishes to destroy.
Politicians promise you heaven before an election and give you hell after.
A revolution without dancing is not a revolution worth having.
Public school – where the human mind is drilled and manipulated into submission to various social and moral spooks, and thus fitted to continue our system of exploitation and oppression.