“Crime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime.”

—  Emma Goldman

Anarchism, What it Really Stands For (1910)
Anarchism, What it Really Stands For (1910)

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anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and sp… 1868–1940

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