Emma Goldman Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: June 27, 1869 - May 14, 1940
Birthday: June 27
Death: May 14
Conceit, arrogance and egotism are the essentials of patriotism... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an iron gate. Those who have had the fortune of being born on some particular spot consider themselves nobler, better, grander, more intelligent than those living beings inhabiting any other spot. It is, therefore, the duty of everyone living on that chosen spot to fight, kill and die in the attempt to impose his superiority upon all the others.
source: "What is Patriotism?". Emma Goldman's Speech in San Francisco, California, awpc.cattcenter.iastate.edu. April 26, 1908. 
topic: Patriotic, Fighting, Intelligent, Patriotism And Nationalism, Anti Patriotism
