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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 woman's right to her soul.

Emma Goldman

Emma Goldman (1869–1940), U.S. anarchist. repr. in Red Emma Speaks, pt. 1, ed. Alix Kates Shulman (1972). "What I Believe," published in New York World (1908).

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