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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.24,0:00:01.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Years before her critics dubbed her
Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.60,0:00:03.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of the most dangerous people in America,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.58,0:00:05.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a young woman named Emma Goldman
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.17,0:00:06.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,found herself at a dance.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.91,0:00:08.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Although she was a political activist
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.38,0:00:10.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,attending the event to gain support for her cause,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.50,0:00:12.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she also just loved dancing --
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.53,0:00:14.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so much so that one of her allies took her aside
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.85,0:00:17.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to criticize her for being frivolous and undignified.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:17.93,0:00:19.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After all, should a serious activist
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.60,0:00:21.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be seen having so much fun?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:21.63,0:00:23.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Furious at the interruption,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.02,0:00:24.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Goldman told the young man
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.07,0:00:25.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to mind his own business,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.57,0:00:27.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the liberty she fought for
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.19,0:00:29.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was not about the "denial of life and joy."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.55,0:00:30.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instead, she said,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:30.42,0:00:31.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I want freedom,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.46,0:00:33.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the right to self-expression,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.33,0:00:35.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everybody's right to beautiful, radiant things."
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.98,0:00:38.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For Goldman, a revolution without dancing
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.69,0:00:41.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was not a revolution worth having.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.96,0:00:46.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was born in 1869 to Jewish parents
Dialogue: 0,0:00:46.42,0:00:47.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the Russian Empire and raised by a
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.94,0:00:50.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,distant mother and an abusive father
Dialogue: 0,0:00:50.27,0:00:52.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who tried to force her to marry at age 15.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.67,0:00:54.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When she refused, he threw her French
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.40,0:00:55.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grammar book in the fire, saying,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.85,0:00:57.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Girls do not have to learn much!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.66,0:00:58.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All a Jewish daughter needs to know
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.94,0:01:00.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is how to prepare gefullte fish,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.73,0:01:02.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cut noodles fine, and give the man
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.79,0:01:04.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plenty of children."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.08,0:01:06.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are few women in her era who would defy
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.40,0:01:07.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that idea of womanhood quite as much
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.94,0:01:09.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as Emma Goldman.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:09.42,0:01:10.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When she was 16, she escaped her father
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.89,0:01:12.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by emigrating to the United States,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.40,0:01:14.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where she discovered her true calling:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.44,0:01:17.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a political rebel and a fiery orator who would spend
Dialogue: 0,0:01:17.42,0:01:19.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her entire life calling for revolution.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.67,0:01:21.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She was horrified by the tragic story
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.29,0:01:23.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of several labor activists who were executed
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.70,0:01:25.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Chicago, and found herself drawn to the labor
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.67,0:01:27.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,movement and eventually to anarchism.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.94,0:01:30.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Contrary to what that word might suggest,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.54,0:01:32.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Goldman's philosophy was not about
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.20,0:01:33.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,disorder and chaos.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.66,0:01:34.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was about personal freedom
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.97,0:01:36.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and rejecting institutions she believed
Dialogue: 0,0:01:36.98,0:01:38.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were repressive:
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.11,0:01:39.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,government, religion, war,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.50,0:01:40.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,business interests,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.81,0:01:41.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even marriage.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.53,0:01:44.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Although she did end up marrying several times
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.04,0:01:46.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out of convenience or for citizenship,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.24,0:01:48.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Goldman rejected traditional notions of marriage
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.53,0:01:50.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and chose never to have children.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.85,0:01:52.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Goldman quickly became one of the most
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.40,0:01:54.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,famous radical figures in America,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:54.62,0:01:55.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whose power with words was sometimes
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.91,0:01:57.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,referred to as a "sledgehammer."
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.85,0:01:59.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She traveled across the country
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.20,0:02:01.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,speaking so passionately that the famed reporter,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.04,0:02:01.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nellie Bly,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.85,0:02:03.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would dub her a "little Joan of Arc."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.58,0:02:05.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over the years, Goldman was sent to prison
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.61,0:02:07.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for her ideas several times,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.44,0:02:09.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,once for promoting birth control,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.34,0:02:10.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,once for discouraging men from registering
Dialogue: 0,0:02:10.93,0:02:12.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the draft, and once for
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.57,0:02:14.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,telling unemployed workers to "take bread"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:14.42,0:02:16.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the wealthy if they were deprived
Dialogue: 0,0:02:16.04,0:02:17.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of work and food.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.77,0:02:19.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Despite her support for female independence,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.71,0:02:21.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she often found herself at odds with suffragists,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.78,0:02:24.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,believing it less important to get women the vote
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.05,0:02:25.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in systems she viewed as oppressive
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.73,0:02:27.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than to dismantle them entirely.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.42,0:02:30.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Emma said, "the right to vote, or equal civil rights,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.44,0:02:33.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,may be good demands, but true emancipation
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.16,0:02:35.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,begins neither at the polls nor in courts."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.37,0:02:38.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She said, "it begins in woman's soul."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.53,0:02:40.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She believed that women needed to reject
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.33,0:02:42.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the sexist rules of societies and governments
Dialogue: 0,0:02:42.58,0:02:43.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and assert their right to make decisions
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.92,0:02:46.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about their lives and their bodies.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:46.42,0:02:48.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Only that, said Goldman, would truly
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.06,0:02:49.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,set women free.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.84,0:02:50.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Although she was heterosexual,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.90,0:02:52.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Goldman was one of the earliest
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.43,0:02:53.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,American advocates for gay rights,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.82,0:02:55.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as well as birth control
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.61,0:02:57.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the sexual freedom of women.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.53,0:02:59.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I demand the independence of woman;
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.36,0:03:01.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her right to support herself;
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.24,0:03:02.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to live for herself;
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.52,0:03:04.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to love whomever she pleases,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.12,0:03:06.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or as many as she pleases," she wrote.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:06.70,0:03:08.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I demand freedom for both sexes,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.50,0:03:10.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,freedom of action, freedom in love,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.98,0:03:12.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and freedom in motherhood."
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.83,0:03:15.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Many of her ideas about gender, sex, and sexuality
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.62,0:03:17.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would be considered controversial even today--
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.66,0:03:18.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in the late 1800s,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.66,0:03:20.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they were positively shocking.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.69,0:03:22.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Goldman was a thorn in the side of
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.25,0:03:24.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,American authorities for many years.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.25,0:03:25.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In 1919, they finally declared
Dialogue: 0,0:03:25.86,0:03:27.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her American citizenship invalid,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.74,0:03:28.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and deported her back to Russia,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.91,0:03:30.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which had recently had
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.26,0:03:32.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a people's revolution of its own.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.28,0:03:33.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what she found in the aftermath
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.28,0:03:34.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was not the utopia of her dreams,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.86,0:03:36.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but rather another repressive regime
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.82,0:03:39.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,willing to crush the rights of its own citizens.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.25,0:03:41.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After meeting with Lenin himself,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.24,0:03:42.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she became deeply disillusioned
Dialogue: 0,0:03:42.82,0:03:44.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the new, communist government.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.77,0:03:46.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So she traveled abroad speaking out about
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.74,0:03:48.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the oppressiveness of the Soviets,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.34,0:03:49.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which alienated many of her allies
Dialogue: 0,0:03:49.91,0:03:51.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and got her ejected from both
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.29,0:03:52.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sweden and Germany.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:52.73,0:03:55.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When she finally returned to America in 1934
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.56,0:03:55.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(with the permission
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.99,0:03:57.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the Roosevelt administration)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.22,0:03:59.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Goldman was a grandmotherly figure in her 60s,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.77,0:04:02.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but just as stubborn and outspoken
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.22,0:04:03.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as she'd ever been.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.46,0:04:05.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,On her final U.S. speaking tour,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.38,0:04:06.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her speeches rallied against
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.49,0:04:08.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the fascism of Hitler's Germany
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.42,0:04:10.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the communism of Stalin's Russia,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.47,0:04:13.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,angering people on the right and the left.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.13,0:04:14.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even old age could not dampen
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.25,0:04:16.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her revolutionary spirit;
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.06,0:04:18.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at 67, she traveled to Barcelona
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.20,0:04:19.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to support workers and anarchists
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.12,0:04:21.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who had risen up against fascism
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.21,0:04:22.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,during the Spanish Civil War.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.76,0:04:24.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She called them a "shining example"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:24.15,0:04:25.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the rest of the world,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.15,0:04:27.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and told an audience of 10,000 that
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.63,0:04:30.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"your ideal has been my ideal for 45 years,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.82,0:04:32.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it will remain to my last breath."
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.91,0:04:34.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,At the end of her life,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.02,0:04:35.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when the goals of her cause seemed more
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.50,0:04:36.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unpopular and further away
Dialogue: 0,0:04:36.91,0:04:38.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from reality than ever,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.62,0:04:40.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Goldman never wavered in her beliefs,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.63,0:04:42.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,even when the price was deportation,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.48,0:04:44.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,threats of violence, and prison terms.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.52,0:04:47.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She hoped that her example could light the way
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.09,0:04:48.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for future generations as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.94,0:04:50.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As she wrote to a friend and former lover
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.91,0:04:52.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,years before her death,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.72,0:04:55.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"someday, sometime long after we're gone,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.30,0:04:57.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,liberty may again raise its proud head.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.83,0:04:59.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is up to us to blaze its way --
Dialogue: 0,0:04:59.63,0:05:01.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dim as our torch may seem today --
Dialogue: 0,0:05:01.25,0:05:03.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is still the one flame."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.27,0:05:05.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Throughout her life, Goldman had a knack
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.44,0:05:07.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for infuriating both friends and foes,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.40,0:05:09.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but would never compromise her convictions
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.11,0:05:11.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the way she lived to please either of them.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:11.73,0:05:13.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"A trail of bonfires marked Goldman's
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.68,0:05:14.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rampage through life,"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.66,0:05:16.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wrote one historian, and indeed,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:16.76,0:05:18.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Goldman was willing to burn almost any bridge
Dialogue: 0,0:05:18.74,0:05:20.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the name of her truth.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.13,0:05:21.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As she once said
Dialogue: 0,0:05:21.14,0:05:23.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(when a young man tried to stop her from dancing)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.25,0:05:25.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,she would never stop fighting for a world
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.05,0:05:26.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where liberty was the birthright
Dialogue: 0,0:05:26.43,0:05:27.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of every human being,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.81,0:05:29.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and where women could
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.20,0:05:30.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,live, love, and dance
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.61,0:05:32.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as freely as they wanted.