Quote#Politics & Power
Emma Goldman has campaigned boldly and steadfastly for individual…
Quote byMagnus Hirschfeld · 1868–1935
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Yearbook for Intermediate Sexual Types, volume 23 (1923).
English (original)
Emma Goldman has campaigned boldly and steadfastly for individual rights, and especially for those deprived of their rights. Thus it came about that she was the first and only woman, indeed the first and only American, to take up the defense of homosexual love before the general public.
— Magnus Hirschfeld
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