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01/14/2003 Entry: "Why be subtle ?"
Berkeley censors strike out at the long-dead Emma Goldman because the quotes used in some fundraising mailer were too political. Political Emma Goldman quotes ? Golly, they most have looked pretty hard to find any of those... The quotes appear to be pretty tame:
In one of the quotations, from 1915, Goldman called on people "not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice of protest, to call attention of the people to the crime and outrage which are about to be perpetrated on them." In the other, from 1902, she warned that free-speech advocates "shall soon be obliged to meet in cellars, or in darkened rooms with closed doors, and speak in whispers lest our next door neighbors should hear that free-born citizens dare not speak in the open."
Personally, I think they should have used
this one:
"I believe that militarism will cease when the liberty-loving spirits of the world say to their masters: "Go and do your own killing. We have sacrificed ourselves and our loved ones long enough fighting your battles. In return you have made parasites and criminals of us in times of peace and brutalized us in times of war. You have separated us from our brothers and have made of the world a human slaughterhouse. No, we will not do your killing or fight for the country that you have stolen from us."
Really, why be subtle ?
BYW, The group doing the fundraiser was mentioned here before as well.
