Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman, 1869-1940
Emma Goldman was an anarchist and pioneering feminist and birth control advocate. Born in Russia, she emigrated to the US, where she was described by J. Edgar Hoover as "one of the most dangerous women in America".
She helped her lover Alex Berkman in his assassination attempt of industrialist Henry Clay Frick due to his role in killing Homestead strikers, and put on popular speaking tours.
She was deported illegally to Russia in 1919, where she and Berkman became outspoken critics of the Bolshevik regime. She was active up until her death.

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Emma Goldman was born in 1869 in a Jewish ghetto in Russia where her family ran a small inn. When she was 13 the family moved to St Petersburg. It was just after the assassination of Alexander II and so was a time of political repression. The Jewish community suffered a wave of pogroms.

Obituary for Texan anarchist Ross Winn written by Emma Goldman.

THE popular notion about marriage and love is that they are synonymous, that they spring from the same motives, and cover the same human needs. Like most popular notions this also rests not on actual facts, but on superstition.

WE BOAST of the age of advancement, of science, and progress. Is it not strange, then, that we still believe in fetich worship? True, our fetiches have different form and substance, yet in their power over the human mind they are still as disastrous as were those of old.

OUR REFORMERS have suddenly made a great discovery--the white slave traffic. The papers are full of these "unheard-of conditions," and lawmakers are already planning a new set of laws to check the horror.

SO LONG as discontent and unrest make themselves but dumbly felt within a limited social class, the powers of reaction may often succeed in suppressing such manifestations.

A rare article defending anarchism, by two of its principle proponents in the early-20th Century United States

Kronstadt 1921: An Analysis of Bolshevik Propaganda