7 Emma Goldman Quotes on Justice

Emma Goldman quotes on justice

31. No revolution can ever succeed as a factor of liberation unless the MEANS used to further it be identical in spirit and tendency with the PURPOSES to be achieved. Revolution is the negation of the existing, a violent protest against man's inhumanity to man with all the thousand and one slaveries it involves. It is the destroyer of dominant values upon which a complex system of injustice, oppression, and wrong has been built up by ignorance and brutality. It is the herald of NEW VALUES, ushering in a transformation of the basic relations of man to man, and of man to society.

45. A society gets all the criminals it deserves.

51. Crime is naught but misdirected energy.

64. It is organized violence on top which creates individual violence at the bottom. It is the accumulated indignation against organized wrong, organized crime, organized injustice, which drives the political offender to act.

66. 'It is significant that whenever the public mind is to be diverted from great social wrong, a crusade is inaugurated against indecency.'

79. Resistance to tyranny is man's highest ideal.

100. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all human beings, irrespective of race, color, or sex, are born with the equal right to share at the table of life.