“The motto should not be: Forgive one another; rather, Understand one another.”

— Emma Goldman, The Tragedy of Woman's Emancipation, in Anarchism and Other Essays (1910)

About Emma Goldman

1869 – 1940

Lithuanian-born American anarchist and writer.

“Motherhood in the true sense should embrace all children.”

“Free love? As if love is anything but free!”

“Yes, love is free; it can dwell in no other atmosphere.”

“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

“All becoming and growing—all that guarantees a future—involves pain.”

“It is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer.”

“The superior man thinks of virtue; the small man thinks of comfort.”

“A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.”

“Let us forget and forgive injuries.”