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    Deportation Its Meaning and Menace: Last Message to the People of America
    Deportation Its Meaning and Menace: Last Message to the People of America
    Deportation Its Meaning and Menace: Last Message to the People of America
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    Deportation Its Meaning and Menace: Last Message to the People of America

    By Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman

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    Deportation Its Meaning and Menace: Last Message to the People of America by Emma Goldman is a pamphlet detailing the goodbye message of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman at Ellis Island. Excerpt: "WITH pencil and scraps of paper concealed behind the persons of friends who had come to say good-bye at the Ellis Island Deportation Station, Alexander Berkman hastily scribbled the last lines of this pamphlet. I THINK it is the best introduction to this pamphlet to say that before its writing was finished the rulers of America began deporting men directly and obviously for the offense of striking against the industrial owners of America."
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateDec 8, 2020
    ISBN4064066436025
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    Emma Goldman

    Emma Goldman (1869–1940) was an anarchist political activist and writer. She played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. Born in present-day Lithuania to a Jewish family, Goldman immigrated to the United States in 1885. Attracted to anarchism after the Chicago Haymarket affair, Goldman became a writer and a renowned lecturer on anarchist philosophy, women’s rights, and social issues. In 1917, Goldman and fellow anarchist writer Alexander Berkman, her lover and lifelong friend, were sentenced to two years in jail for conspiring to “induce persons not to register” for the newly-instated draft. After their release from prison, they were arrested—along with 248 others—in the Palmer Raids during the First Red Scare and deported to Russia. Goldman later left the Soviet Union and in 1923 published a book about her experiences, My Disillusionment in Russia. She died in Toronto, Canada, in 1940, at the age of seventy.

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      Deportation Its Meaning and Menace - Emma Goldman

      Emma Goldman, Alexander Berkman

      Deportation Its Meaning and Menace: Last Message to the People of America

      Published by Good Press, 2022

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066436025

      Table of Contents

      INTRODUCTION

      DEPORTATION-Its Meaning and Menace

      II

      III

      IV

      V

      WHAT'S TO BE DONE?

      Quotations from American and Foreign Authors Which Would Fall Under the Criminal Anarchy Law, Espionage Law, Etc.

      ABRAHAM LINCOLN

      THOMAS JEFFERSON

      WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON

      WENDELL PHILLIPS

      STEPHEN PEARL ANDREWS

      HENRY GEORGE

      HENRY DAVID THOREAU

      RALPH WALDO EMERSON

      EDMUND BURKE

      THOMAS PAINE

      JOHN STUART MILL

      HERBERT SPENCER

      LYOF N. TOLSTOY

      INTRODUCTION

      Table of Contents

      WITH pencil and scraps of paper concealed behind the persons of friends who had come to say good-bye at the Ellis Island Deportation Station, Alexander Berkman hastily scribbled the last lines of this pamphlet.

      I THINK it is the best introduction to this pamphlet to say that before its writing was finished the rulers of America began deporting men directly and obviously for the offense of striking against the industrial owners of America.

      THE Red Ark is gone. In the darkness of early morning it slipped away, leaving behind many wives and children destitute of support. They were denied even the knowledge of the sailing of the ship, denied the right of farewell to the husbands and fathers they may never see again. After the boat was gone, women and children came to the dock to visit the prisoners, bringing such little comforts as are known to the working class, seedy overcoats for the Russian winter, cheap gloves and odds and ends of food. They were told that the ship was gone. The refined cruelty of the thing was too much for them; they stormed the ferry-house, broke a window, screamed and cried, and were driven away by soldiers

      THE Red Ark will loom big in American history. It is the first picturesque incident of the beginning effort of the War Millionaires to crush the soul of America and insure the safety of the dollars they have looted over the graves of Europe and through the deaths of the quarter million soldier boys whom American mothers now mourn.

      YES, the Red Ark will go into history. Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman whom the screaming harlots of the yellow press have chosen to call the leaders of those whose distinction is that they have no leaders, are more fortunate than otherwise. Berkman and Goldman have been deported as Russians. They were born in Russia, but they did their thirty years' work of en, enlightenment in this, our America. I think they are therefore Americans, in the best sense, and the best of Americans. They fought for the elementary rights of men, here in our country when others of us were afraid to speak, or would not pay the price. In all

      We leading cities of this land, they have contributed to the intellectual life of the younger, aspiring generation. I venture to say that there is hardly a liberal in the United States whose life has not been influenced directly or indirectly and made better, by Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman.

      ALEXANDER BERKMAN spent in American prisons more years than like to remember. He did it deliberately. He did it for the welfare of men, and the American portion of mankind. He never hesitated to offer his life for his brother. I recall a picture; it is in Russia. We were gathered in Moscow. It looked as though the Revolution were going to its death. Everywhere the Soviet armies Were retreating, the masses were sinking into

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