"Statement by Emma Goldman at the Federal Hearing in Re Deportation"
Statement
By: Emma Goldman
Date: October 27, 1919
Source: Goldman, Emma. "Statement by Emma Goldman at the Federal Hearing in Re Deportation." United States National Archives, Record Group 165. Reproduced in the Emma Goldman Papers. Available online at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/Goldman/Exhibition/plea.html; website home page: http://www.sunsite.berkeley.edu (accessed January 20, 2003).
About the Author: Emma Goldman (1869–1940) was born in the poor Jewish ghetto in Kovno, Russia. In 1889, she moved to New York City and joined the anarchist movement, which rejected the authority of the state, church, and family and believed that morality was relative. Goldman also advocated free speech, free love, birth control, and unionism. She died in exile in Canada but was...
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