What Emma Goldman thinks about energy
Lithuanian-born American anarchist writer and activist (1869 to 1940); author of Anarchism and Other Essays.
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1 dated position, c. 1910, in their own words. Our reading of what Emma Goldman has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsCrime is naught but misdirected energy. So long as every institution of today, economic, political, social, and moral, conspires to misdirect human energy into wrong channels; so long as most people are out of place doing the things they hate to do, living a life they loathe to live, crime will be inevitable, and all the laws on the statutes can only increase, but never do away with, crime.
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