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Spotted on a poster this morning:

"If I can't dance, it's not my revolution."

a variation on what I had originally heard, that being:

"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution."

and this page confuses the issue still further with:

"If I can’t dance to it, it’s not my revolution."

Fortunately, someone called Heathengirl has investigated the situation. Turns out Goldman may not have said any of the above at all. Too bad. She did, however, say this:

"We 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 freeborn citizens dare not speak in the open." (Emma Goldman, "Free Speech in Chicago," Lucifer the Lightbearer 30 November 1902)

Also this:

"In the face of this approaching disaster, it behooves men and women not yet overcome by war madness to raise their voice of protest, to call the attention of the people to the crime and outrage which are about to be perpetrated on them." (Emma Goldman, "Preparedness, The Road to Universal Slaughter," Mother Earth December 1915)

This rockin' feminist moment brought to you by Red Emma Goldman, anarchist feminist agitator.