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Pierre Ceresole

 

Words from Michael Jackson and Princess Diana Spencer

Michael Jackson by Andy Warhol

And my goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance.

Truth: Abraham Lincoln

 

Abraham Lincoln
Sixteenth President of the United States

(1809-1865)

“As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy.”

 

Mordechai Vanunu

 

 

Truth: The Exhibit

 About the Exhibit

 

    

 

Americans Who Tell the Truth is a series of portraits of Americans who have helped transform American ideals into reality, challenged injustices and forged news ways of addressing once accepted acts, such as war, as horrific processes that do not result in the greater good.  Today, over one hundred portaits have ben painted by New England artist, Robert Shetterly.  This exhibit contains half that number.  To learn more about the artist and the Americans Who Tell the Truth series visit their website: http://www.americanswhotellthetruth.org/.

Each portrait in the exhbit contains the original quote that Robert Shetterly incorporated into the work of art.  In addition, all portraits contain a biography of the individual, and most offer additional quotes.  Following the portraits is an artist statement by Robert Shetterly and a biography.  Curriculum ideas are also contained at the end of the exhibit, as well as directions on how to obtain products offered through the Americans Who Tell the Truth organization, and information on how to bring the exhibition to your community, in its entirety or as selected pieces.

 

Exhibit Portraits: Robert Shetterly

Curriculum Ideas: Michele Hemenway and Marilyn Turkovich 

 

 

Truth: Justice Louis Brandeis

 

Justice Louis Brandeis 

U.S. Supreme Court Justice 

(1856-1941)

Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. … Crime is contagious. If the government becomes a law-breaker, it breeds contempt for the law: it invites every man to become a law unto himself, it invites anarchy.

 

Additional Quotes by Justice Louis Brandeis

  • America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief; it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered. 'Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent. 
  • Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. 
  • I abhor averages. I like the individual case. A man may have six meals one day and none the next, making an average of three meals per day, but that is not a good way to live. 
  • If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. 
  • If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold. 
  • If you would only recognize that life is hard, things would be so much easier for you.  
  • In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action. 
  • Men long for an afterlife in which there apparently is nothing to do but delight in heaven's wonders. 
  • Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done. 
  • Neutrality is at times a graver sin than belligerence. 
  • Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement. 
  • Our government... teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. 
  • Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.  
  • The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding. 
  • The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities. 
  • The most important political office is that of the private citizen. 
  • The world presents enough problems if you believe it to be a world of law and order; do not add to them by believing it to be a world of miracles.  
  • There are no shortcuts in evolution. 
  • Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty. 
  • To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.  
  • We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself. 
  • We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

 

Biography

Long before Louis Brandeis made his mark as a Justice on the United States Supreme Court, where he served from 1916 to 1939, as the first Jewish member of the Court, he had a brilliant career as an advocate for social justice issues. He was known as the “People’s Attorney” for taking on causes such as workplace conditions, fairness by banks and insurance companies, government corruption, and unreasonable restraint of trade. His commitment to using the law to promote social justice was a major reason some members of the Senate opposed his confirmation to the Court. Once confirmed, Brandeis’s brilliantly crafted opinions (often dissents) provided legal analysis and guidance that continue to be cited by scholars and judges today. He influenced in a variety of ways on President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal policies. Justice Brandeis is still known as one of the architects of the right to privacy and one of the most eloquent protectors of the freedom of speech. His commitment to having facts before making decisions is found in the quote “Knowledge is essential to understanding and understanding should precede judging.” His vigilance against government encroachment of civil liberties is noted when he wrote that we should “be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government’s purposes are beneficent.”

Justice Brandeis was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and chose the law school at the University of Louisville as his final resting place. In 1997, the law school (founded in 1846) was renamed the Louis D. Brandeis School of Law. His personal papers are housed at the law school, and can be accessed at www.law.louisville.edu/library/collections/brandeis. These papers have provided source material for a number of biographies have been written about Justice Brandeis, including the comprehensive Louis Brandeis: Justice For the People, by Philippa Strum and several publications by Melvin I. Urofsky and David W. Levy. Brandeis University was founded in 1948 in Waltham, Massachusetts and was named for Justice Brandeis at its founding.

 

Truth: David Korten

David Korten 

Economist, Writer, Publisher  

(1937-  )

... our economic crisis is, at its core, a moral crisis. Our economic institutions and rules, even the indicators by which we measure economic performance, consistently place financial values ahead of life values. They are brilliantly effective at making money for rich people Our children, families, and communities, and natural systems of Earth have paid an intolerable price.

 

Additional Quotes by David Korten

  • And each of these perspectives comes to the same conclusion, which is that our global economy is out of control and performing contrary to basic principles of market economics.
  • As long as you have a system that is based on the rational that if you are making money you are thereby making a contribution to society, these financial rogue practices will continue.
  • But in the past, US companies have been able to increase their profits through downsizing in the US, through colonizing other people's resources, and through the increase of globalization.
  • But we can also take the radical view that the test of an economy has to do with the extent to which it is providing everybody with a decent means of living.
  • Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.
  • Capitalism is not about free competitive choices among people who are reasonably equal in their buying and selling of economic power, it is about concentrating capital, concentrating economic power in very few hands using that power to trash everyone who gets in their way.
  • Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society.
  • Global competition is about winners and losers.
  • If I would need to make a prediction I still believe Kaplan's scenario is very plausible.
  • If you look at the US economy over the last 15-20 years wages have been stagnating or even declining.
  • If you look internationally over the last 50 years there have been improvements in the third world, but in the last 20 years the reverse has happened, with debt crises and increased poverty.
  • In the US, most progressives start to see the differences between internationalism and economic globalization.
  • It is interesting to note that the 200 richest people have more assets than the 2 billion poorest.
  • It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.
  • Money is a mechanism for control.
  • Money is not wealth. Money is a claim on wealth.
  • More and more surveys in the US are indicating a change in values taking place among consumers, who become more concerned about quality of life, food, health and the environment.
  • More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.

Biography

David Korten is a leading critic of corporate globalization and a visionary proponent of a planetary system of local living economies. His international best seller, When Corporations Rule the World (1995) helped frame the global resistance against corporate globalization. The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community (2006), illuminates thesignificance of this resistance by placing it in the historical context of 5,000 years of Empire and the organization of human relationships by dominator hierarchy. His latest book, Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth (2009, 2nd ed., 2010), offers bold economic proposals that address the underlying cause of the current economic collapse, not just its symptoms.

David was born in Longview, Washington in 1937; during his 25-year establishment career, he became increasingly discouraged that the values he learned as a child and believed to be conservative—family, community, peace, justice, and nature were ignored or suffered terrible tolls as a result of policies and directives of the very institutions he served.

David acquired a variety of establishment credentials, including MBA and Ph.D. degrees from the Stanford Business School, service as a captain in the US Air Force, and five years as a Harvard Business School professor, a Ford Foundation project specialist, and Asia regional adviser on development management to the U.S. Agency for International Development. Thirty years working as a development professional in Asia, Africa, and Latin America eventually opened his eyes to the devastating consequences of an economic system designed to make rich people richer without regard to the human and environmental consequences. He became a defector from the foreign aid establishment and joined the global resistance against flawed development models.

While many people refer to David as an economist, he is by training and inclination a student of psychology and behavioral systems. From the time he began his graduate studies at Stanford in 1959, he has been seeking to deepen his understanding of how cultures and institutional structures shape human behavior and to search for ways by which we humans can do a better job of supporting one another in achieving the higher order potentials of our nature.

While at Stanford, David met and married his life partner, Fran Korten. Their marriage gives potent testimony to thepower of partnership as their careers developed in tandem, each making career choices that opened new opportunities forthe other. Fran was a Ford Foundation program officer for 20 years in the Philippines, Indonesia, and New York and is now publisher/executive director of YES! magazine.

David is co-founder and board chair of the Positive Futures Network, which publishes YES! magazine,founder and president of the People-Centered Development Forum, and founding board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies. He is co-chair of the New Economy Working Group which aims to further frame the New Economy Agenda and build support for transformational change through grassroots and media outreach. He is also a founding associate of the International Forum on Globalization and a major contributor to its report on Alternatives to Economic Globalization.

David recently told a reporter, “The work that’s involved in creating a new economy and a new human civilization calls us to be our most creative and innovative, and it puts us in contact with the worlds most wonderful people. And it is awhole lot more fun and satisfying than allowing oneself to sink into the depths of despair and cynicism.”

 

Truth: Paul Wellstone

 

Paul Wellstone 

Political Science Professor, Activist, U.S. Senator

(1944 – 2002)

There is an aspiration that binds us. It is the dream of justice for a beloved community. It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to develop his or her full potential.

 

Additional Quotes by Paul Wellstone

  • A politics that is not sensitive to the concerns and circumstances of people's lives, a politics that does not speak to and include people, is an intellectually arrogant politics that deserves to fail.
  • Above and beyond the question of how to grow the economy there is a legitimate concern about how to grow the quality of our lives.
  • As free citizens in a political democracy, we have a responsibility to be interested and involved in the affairs of the human community, be it at the local or the global level.
  • Education and democracy have the same goal: the fullest possible development of human capabilities.
  • I don't think politics has anything to do with left, right, or center. It has to do with trying to do right by people.
  • I emphasize self-esteem, self-confidence, and dignity, not as an ideal, but as a real test of community organization. Without leadership development, community organizations do not have staying power.
  • I represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party.
  • I saw as a teacher how, if you take that spark of learning that those children have, and you ignite it, you can take a child from any background to a lifetime of creativity and accomplishment.
  • I think the future also will not belong to those who are cynical or those who stand on the sidelines.
  • I was talking about no nukes, the farm crisis. People said that wasn't stuff that a state auditor was supposed to be talking about. Maybe they were right.
  • I'm short, I'm Jewish and I'm a liberal.
  • If a teacher does not involve himself, his values, his commitments, in the course of discussion, why should the students?
  • If we don't fight hard enough for the things we stand for, at some point we have to recognize that we don't really stand for them.
  • It is the belief that extremes and excesses of inequality must be reduced so that each person is free to fully develop his or her full potential. This is why we take precious time out of our lives and give it to politics.
  • Never separate the life you live from the words you speak.
  • Our aims in political activism are not, and should not be, to create a perfect utopia.
  • Our politics are our deepest form of expression: they mirror our past experiences and reflect our dreams and aspirations for the future.
  • Politics is about the improvement of people's lives. It's about advancing the cause of peace and justice in our country and the world. Politics is about doing well for the people.
  • Politics is not about money.
  • Politics is not about power.
  • Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine.
  •  Politics isn't about big money or power games; it's about the improvement of people's lives.
  •  Sometimes, the only realists are the dreamers.
  • Successful organizing is based on the recognition that people get organized because they, too, have a vision.
  • The American polity is infected with a serious imbalance of power between elites and masses, a power which is the principal threat to our democracy.
  • The first task in teaching is to bring to consciousness what the students already believe by virtue of their personal experiences about themselves and society.
  • The future will belong to those who have passion and are willing to work hard to make our country better.
  • The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.
  • The kind of national goal we ought to be thinking about is way beyond national product - it is how do we as a nation help our children be the best kinds of people they could possibly be?
  • The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.
  • The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power.
  • There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.
  • There is a major ingredient missing from our perception of how changes are brought about; that ingredient is power.
  • We can and must move U.S. politics forward by means of committed participation.
  • We can remake the world daily.
  • What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves.
  • What the poor, the weak, and the inarticulate desperately require is power, organization, and a sense of identity and purpose, not rarefied advice of political scientists.
  • When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.
  • Why don't we call on the credit card companies to be accountable? They need to be held accountable for their predatory lending practices.

Biography

Paul Wellstone died in a plane crash with his wife Sheila and daughter Marcia while campaigning for his third term as U.S. Senator from Minnesota. One of the most progressive voices in the Senate, he was for affordable health care, strict environment protection, campaign finance reform, raising the minimum wage, arms control, veterans’ benefits, gay rights, and protecting Social Security and Medicare from privatization. He was opposed to extravagant expenditures on weapons. He voted against the Iraq War resolution shortly before his death.

Wellstone was born July 21, 1944, the son of immigrant Russian Jews. He grew up in Virginia and went on a scholarship to the University of North Carolina where he was a champion wrestler and earned a B.A. and Ph. D. in political science. In 1970 he began teaching at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, while continuing as a political activist. He protested the Vietnam War, mobilized welfare mothers, organized for nuclear disarmament, and was arrested sitting in at a bank that had foreclosed on local farmers. In 1990 Wellstone ran a liberal, populist campaign for Senator, winning against an incumbent.

Wellstone said, “Politics is not about power. Politics is not about money. Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning. Politics is about the improvement of people’s lives.”

 

Truth: David Ray Griffin

 

David Ray Griffin 

Theologian, Professor, Author,  9/11 Truth Activist 

(1939-  )

There are literally dozens of problems in the official account of 9/11 sufficiently serious to show the official story to be false. But the clearest proof is provided by the video of the World Trade Center building # 7 coming straight down in absolute free fall.

And yet, even though this proof has existed in plain sight for all these years, the fact that 9/11 was an inside job, and hence a State Crime Against Democracy, has remained a hidden fact.

 

Additional Quote by David Ray Griffin

We refuse to let our knowledge, however limited, be informed by your ignorance, however vast.

 
Biography

David Ray Griffin’s life journey has lead him to pursue the knowledge of theology, to reconcile the pervasive divide between science and religion, and to uncover the truth about the complicity of the US government in the 9/11 attacks. For many years, Dr. Griffin dedicated himself to studying and presenting, in widely read essays, speeches, and books, the role of religion in modern life, including the commonalities between religion and science. Following the September attacks on New York and Washington, he began researching the reasons for and the consequences of this single event, believing it is his responsibility as a theologian to publicly divulge his findings.  
 
Growing up in a small town in Oregon, David Ray Griffin was an active participant in the Disciples of Christ Church which led to his decision to become a minister. After obtaining his master’s degree in counseling from the University of Oregon in 1963, Griffin went on to study philosophical theology and consequently attended the Claremont Graduate University in California, where, in 1968, he was awarded a Ph.D in Philosophy of Religion and Theology. At Claremont, Griffin became interested in process theology, in particular the ideas of Alfred North Whitehead, which he argues provides a sound basis for addressing contemporary social and ecological issues.
 
In 1973, he, along with theologian James Cobb, established the Center for Process Studies at the Claremont School of Theology and remains as one of its co-directors. For more than three decades, he was a professor of religion and theology at Claremont. He is a prolific writer and editor of books on spiritual and theological issues.   
 
In addition to his theological and philosophical writings, Griffin focuses on political and social issues. He has stated that “the task of a theologian is to look at the world from what we would imagine the divine perspective, one that would care about the good of the whole and would love all the parts.” In several books, the most well-known being The New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11, Griffin examines in detail the inconsistencies, contradictions, and coincidences surrounding the New York attacks, concluding that the Bush Administration was complicit in the deadly events. If 9/11 “was brought about by forces within our own government,” Griffin says, “[and thus] is antithetical to the general good, it is the responsibility of a theologian and public intellectual to probe and explore the issue.” “He comes to his controversial conclusions with lucidity and calm,” states Reyhan Harmanci of the San Francisco Chronicle. Catholic New Times critic Rosemary Radford Ruether notes that Griffin avoids “inflammatory rhetoric” and bases his opinion “not on any one conclusive piece of evidence, but the sheer accumulation of all of the data.”  
 
Because of his work regarding 9/11, David Ray Griffin and the 9/11 Truth Movement were nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2008 and 2009. To support the nomination, Norwegian professors with 9/11 Truth Norway wrote: David Ray Griffin and the 9/11 Truth Movement have presented convincing evidence showing that this 'war elite' carried out these attacks to establish a new enemy after the Cold War, and to start wars in line with their economic and political interests. We believe the most important contribution to peace in the 21st century is the disclosure of these elite political games and the removal of the false reasons for its aggressive wars. This Griffin and the 9/11 Truth Movement have done in an excellent way. If the attack on 11 September was a U.S. 'false flag operation' to justify wars in the Middle East, the disclosure of that fact should be honored with the Nobel Peace Prize. We therefore nominate David Ray Griffin and the 9/11 Truth Movement to share the Nobel Peace Prize for 2008.  
A courageous and true statesman, David Ray Griffin has dedicated his life to exploring the truth, in theology and philosophy and in society. “Most of my work” he explains, “is on issues that I think are of central importance in a worldview capable of sustaining a sense of the meaning and importance of life, and an ethical stance adequate to the needs of the present and future situation of the world.”

 

Truth: Emma Goldman

 

Emma Goldman 

Anarchist, Feminist, Labor Advocate

(1869-1940)

…The greatest bulwark of capitalism is militarism.

 

Additional Quotes by Emma Goldman

  • All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves. 
  • Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony. 
  • Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. 
  • Crime is naught but misdirected energy. 
  • Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism. 
  • Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian. 
  • Free love? as if love is anything but free. Man has bought brains, but all the millions in the world have failed to buy love.  
  • Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there. 
  • I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. 
  • Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. 
  • Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. 
  • If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution. 
  • If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus. 
  • If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. 
  • In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home. 
  • It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on. 
  • Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free. 
  • Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood? 
  • No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time. 
  • No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. 
  • All claims of education notwithstanding, the pupil will accept only that which his mind craves. 
  • Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive; it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony. 
  • Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another. 
  • Crime is naught but misdirected energy. 
  • Direct action is the logical, consistent method of Anarchism. 
  • Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian. 
  • Heaven must be an awfully dull place if the poor in spirit live there. 
  • I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. 
  • Idealists are foolish enough to throw caution to the winds. They have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. 
  • Idealists foolish enough to throw caution to the winds have advanced mankind and have enriched the world. 
  • If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus. 
  • If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal. 
  • In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home. 
  • It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on. 
  • Merely external emancipation has made of the modern woman an artificial being. Now, woman is confronted with the necessity of emancipating herself from emancipation, if she really desires to be free. 
  • Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood? 
  • No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time. 
  • No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. 

 

Biography

Emma Goldman was born in Kovno, Russia and emigrated to live with a sister in Rochester, New York, when she was fifteen. Her family’s financial hardships had forced her to leave school and work in a factory, and her first work in America was as a seamstress in a clothing factory.

Her political consciousness was shaped by reading (Cherychevsky, Kropotkin) as well as by first-hand knowledge of miserable working conditions and, most dramatically, by the violent outcome of the Haymarket demonstrations on behalf of the eight-hour workday (1886), following which four Anarchists were executed for allegedly causing the deaths of seven policemen. In 1889 Goldman moved to New York where she first became a protegee of Johann Most, editor of an Anarchist paper. From 1906 until 1917, she and her partner, Alexander Berkman, edited and published their own paper, Mother Earth. She wrote five books: Anarchism and Other Essays (1910); Social Significance of the Modern Drama (1914); My Disillusionment in Russia (1923); My Further Disillusionment in Russia (1924); Living My Life (1931).

In her writing and public speaking Goldman was a gadfly. She championed free speech, birth control, women’s equality and labor unions. She said: “The history of progress is written in the blood of men and women who have dared to espouse an unpopular cause, as, for instance, the black man’s right to his body, or the woman’s right to her soul.” Today we take these rights for granted, but a century ago her words challenged the national conscience. Another bold statement on behalf of labor is meaningful today: “…if the production of any commodity necessitates the sacrifice of human life, society should do without that commodity, but it can not do without that life.”

Emma Goldman was arrested and detained several times for her activism, but her most severe punishment, two years in prison, was for obstructing the draft during World War I. In 1919 she and Berkman were deported to Russia where she was able to witness the consequences of the 1917 Revolution. At odds with Bolshevik dictatorship, she left in 1921. She was permitted to re-enter the United States on a speaking tour in 1924. Marriage to a Welshman gained her English citizenship, and London was her base during the Spanish Civil War. She visited Spain several times, sought refuge for women and children displaced by the war and spoke out against the forces of Fascism. She died in Toronto in 1940 and is buried in Chicago, not far from Haymarket Square.

 

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