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