Emma Goldman: Speech against Conscription and War

( 1917 ) Commentary by Ron Briley, Sandia Preparatory School

“The only law that I recognize is the law which ministers to the needs of humanity, which makes men and women finer and better and more humane, the kind of law which teaches children that human life is sacred, and that those who aim for the purpose of taking human life are going to be called before the bar of human justice and not before a wretched little court which is called your law of the United States.” - Speech against Conscription and War
“I wish to say here, and I don't say it with any authority and I don't say it as a prophet, I merely tell you—I merely tell you the more people you lock up, the more will be the idealists who will take their place; the more of the human voice you suppress, the greater and louder and the profounder will be the human voice.” - Speech against Conscription and War

Emma Goldman (Library of Congress)

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