"I hope I shall never live to see Anarchism become thoroughly respectable, for then I shall have to look for a new ideal."
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Atheists from the United StatesAnti-war activistsAnti-Stalinist leftWomen activists from the United StatesAnarcho-communists
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Letter to Helen Keller (1916), published by "The American Foundation for the Blind"
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Emma Goldman
1869 – 1940
US-amerikanische Friedensaktivistin, Feministin und Anarchistin
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