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title: What I Believe
author: Emma Goldman
published: 1908-07-19
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The student of the history of progressive thought is well aware that every idea
in its early stages has been misrepresented, and the adherents of such ideas
have been maligned and persecuted. One need not go back two thousand years to
the time when those who believed in the gospel of Jesus were thrown into the
arena or hunted into dungeons to realize how little great beliefs or earnest
believers are understood.
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 mans right
to his body, or womans right to her soul.
If, then, from time immemorial, the New has met with opposition and
condemnation, why should my beliefs be exempt from a crown of thorns?