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Emma Goldman There are many wars but, few who appose them,fight for what they believe in or tell the truth as it is. Many people die in wars and Emma Goldman stood up to say that wars were evil and that we shouldn't have them.Emma's early life was difficult and she had to work for what she got.She faught against the war and was rebellious enough to disagree withher father about not wantining to marry someone he had chosen for her. To go on a trip to the US, leaving your home behind might be scarey for some but,Emma enjoyed the trip to the new land. Emma Goldman was born in eighteen sixty-nine. Her parents had little money and Emma was sent to live with her grandparents and her aunt and uncle.Her uncle rutienly beat her up until her father had enough money to bring her back with him to Georgia. When she came home things didn't get better for her,her father smacked her aqrround and she was sent to a new school where the teachers were cruel and slapped her around with rullers.When She was twelve she and her father moved to Russia for his work.("Red Emma"-par three-www.recollection books.com) The country was in it's revolutionary stage which convinced Emma that she wanted to become an anarchist("Emma Goldman Biography"-par four Berkley.edu) At the age of thirteen Emma got her first job working in a factory.Russia was at it's start of being ruled by Alexander the third. The time of political hardship. ("Emma Goldman"-par four genocites.com) Alexander the third blammed Jewish people for for the assassination of Alexander the second.He made it so they couldn't read or write. ("Red Emma"-par 4 www.recollection books.com) From the age of fiveteen Emma was rebellious. She had disagreed to marrying a man her father had chosen for her.( Emma Goldman-par three- Americanswhotellthewholetruth.com) She told her father that she would rather studie than worry about responsibilities such as marrage. Emma's father told her "girls do not have to learn much,only to prepare minced fish, cut noodles fine, and give the man plenty of children!"(on becoming an anarchist-par two-Berlkey.edu) When Emma was in Russia she rebelled against war.She did not believe that harshness towards anyone, have it be searvants or children was a good thing. She got increasingly upset when she saw men going off to die for their country in battle.("Anti-militarism" -Emma Goldman-page one Berkly.edu) Not many women in those days would have stood up for a marrage they didn't want to have or would have thought that strongly about the increadable hardship of the country. On Emma's fight against the worlds unjustices she had moved to the US. Her first reason for moving to the US was because her father was so upset about her decision for not marrying the man he had chosen for her and for the second she hated and told Lennin, Lennin's Soviet leader and the armry show, that she hated the little free speach and press in Russia ("Armory show- berkley.edu pge one) Emma Goldman had written many speaches and stories about how to end the war. One of her most important and most known fights against the war was when she and her friend,fellow archievist Alex Berkman helped make their opinions known by launcing a no-conscription leaguue to teach others the hardships of battle durring world war one.Emma and Alex were arrested and sntanced to six months in jail and deportation.It was her longest jail sentance. (no-conscription league-berkley.com page one) Although it was the longest sntance for her, she could have gotten a much longer sentance. Over twenty two years ago (since then) when she aided Alex Berkman by giving him the money he used to shoot and attempt to kill "Frik" the owner of a power plant where people had faught causing several deaths. Alex was sentanced to twenty two years where for Emma's relief the police didn't have enough to convict her.( Emma Goldman biography page one www.allsands.com) People who are willing to go into protective costody to fight fpr what they believe in are verry strong people. Emma Goldman was verry pleased to travel to the US.Even though she was scared,she was also excited to go to a beautiful land where there were so many freedoms.Emma and her sister Hanna enjoyed the sights and the statue of liberty,the statue of hope and freedom. It was here that she would live with her sister and be able to stand up for what she believed in and be an anarchist.("Emma Goldman Road to Universal Slaughter"page one berkley.edu)"Anarchism is the only philosophy which brings to man the conciousness of himself,which maintains that God, the state and society are non existant and that their promisses are nur and void,since they can be fullfilled only through mans subordination. Anarchism is therefore the teacher of the unity of life; not merely nature,but in man( Emma Goldman quotes-par three   After Emma's sentancing of "six months" the police barged into her home( Emma Goldman Msn.com par three) They yelled at her making her get her things,get out of bed and ready to leave her home.She was forced to walk with the other people being deported, followed by uniformed officers.They were all freezing in the cold snow,at four-twenty in the AM in December the twenty-first of nineteen-nineteen. They were put on a ship and taken to Russia. Emma's head was spinning in the cold and rockyness of the ship.("Deportation" berkley.edu page two) One of the reasons Emma was judged so harshly was because the US disliked anyone who came to there country and went against their traditions, such as, talk badly about the war. The Us thought that, that would lead to other t raditions not being liked about American's causing less of population to come to the US. Some people thought that anarchists were dangerous and a law was passed by a representatve of Chicago that anarchists weren't aloud in the US.("Anarchists"-www.voidnothingness.org- par four) Emma married James Colton who was a US citizen allowing her freely back into the US.("Columbia encyclopidia"-people par one and two) I'm glad that people theze days have more rights. That Cops can't just walk into someone's house without provication or a warrent.They would have to knock on that person's door,take them to prizon, putting them with other deportees, instead of having them standing out in the cold waiting for a boat. They would also have to get their transportation in a quik and orderly mannor.I'm also not sure that if she'd try to inform people about the war in these days, if she would have gotten deported or had any time in prizon at all.That would prabably constitute under the first amendment.The right of free speach, unless it caused a "clear and present danger" which I don't think that would have.They were just informing people that the war was harsh. Emma Goldman was a couragous woman who has faught for her rights and the rights of others. She was insistant on getting her views of the war heard and didn't stop at anything to achieve her goals. Emma was self efficiant,strong and had, had a hard life.Her life was as good as it was because se never backed down.Not to her family and teachers when they beat her.Not when her father tried to get hr to marry, ot to the government where she was departed and arrested.Her fights as an anarchist has taugh bthe world about the perrils of things such as war and her books and writings have gone down in history. Computers and educationalbooks talk about her life as an important immagrant. Going to somewhere like the US at the young age of fiveteen with noone but,her sister,Helen was a verry couragous thing. One of her most important qualities was her inability to back down.