Emma Goldman

Russian-born American anarchist (1869–1940)

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Emma Goldman was a human born in Kaunas on 27 June 1869 and died in Toronto on 14 May 1940 due to a stroke. She held citizenship in the Russian Empire, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Lithuania. An atheist of Lithuanian Jewish ethnicity, she worked as an anarchist, journalist, women's rights activist, and lecturer, primarily in New York City. Her political ideologies included anarchism and feminism. She was influenced by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Friedrich Nietzsche, Johann Most, and Henry David Thoreau.

Goldman spoke English, German, Russian, and Yiddish. She was unmarried to Alexander Berkman and was convicted of sedition. Her notable works include *Living My Life*, *Anarchism and Other Essays*, and *My Disillusionment in Russia*. Other works cited are *Down with the anarchists!*, *Syndicalism*, *The place of the individual in society*, *Emma Goldman on Anarchism*, and *Marriage and Love*. Her archives are held at the International Institute of Social History and the New York Public Library Main Branch.

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Person · Open Library

Born: 27 June 1869
Died: 14 May 1940
Works: 136

Top works

Down with the anarchists!
Syndicalism
The place of the individual in society
Emma Goldman on Anarchism
Marriage and Love

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type: Person
Gender: Female
Origin: Canada
Active from: 1869
Active to: 1940

emoscreamoskramz

Discogs Stream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners: 7,124
Total plays: 121,416

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,938x
Tissue-based map of the human proteome
· 2015 · cited 14,085x
Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017
· 2018 · cited 10,989x
Global and regional mortality from 235 causes of death for 20 age groups in 1990 and 2010: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2010
· 2012 · cited 10,797x
Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,210x

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Quotes

“I feel sure that the police are helping us more than I could do in ten years. They are making more anarchists than the most prominent people connected with the anarchist cause could make in ten years. If they will only continue I shall be very grateful; they will save me lots of work.”
“The custom of procuring abortions has reached such appalling proportions in America as to be beyond belief... So great is the misery of the working classes that seventeen abortions are committed in every one hundred pregnancies.”
“Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labelled Utopian.”
“When we can't dream any longer we die.”
“I hope I shall never live to see Anarchism become thoroughly respectable, for then I shall have to look for a new ideal.”
“When, in the course of human development, existing institutions prove inadequate to the needs of man, when they serve merely to enslave, rob, and oppress mankind, the people have the eternal right to rebel against, and overthrow, these institutions.”

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Encyclopedic overview

Emma Goldman (June 27, 1869 – May 14, 1940) was a Russian-born anarchist revolutionary, political activist, and writer. 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.

Born in Kaunas, Lithuania (then within the Russian Empire), to a Lithuanian Jewish family, Goldman immigrated to the United States in 1885. Attracted to anarchism after the Haymarket affair in Chicago, Goldman became a writer and a renowned lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women's rights, and social issues, attracting crowds of thousands. She and anarchist writer Alexander Berkman, her lover and lifelong friend, planned to assassinate industrialist and financier Henry Clay Frick as an act of propaganda of the deed. Frick survived the attempt on his life in 1892, and Berkman was sentenced to 22 years in prison. Goldman was imprisoned several times in the years that followed, for "inciting to riot" and illegally distributing information about birth control. In 1906, Goldman founded the anarchist journal Mother Earth.

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