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'''Emma Goldman''' was born in 1869 in [[Lithuania]]; she never became an American citizen, and as an [[Anarchist]] rejected American political values. Goldman lectured throughout the United States advocating violence and anarchy. She was sent to jail several times --once after a murder attempt on a leading industrialist failed to kill him--and was eventually deported to Soviet Russia. She died in 1940.
 
'''Emma Goldman''' was born in 1869 in [[Lithuania]]; she never became an American citizen, and as an [[Anarchist]] rejected American political values. Goldman lectured throughout the United States advocating violence and anarchy. She was sent to jail several times --once after a murder attempt on a leading industrialist failed to kill him--and was eventually deported to Soviet Russia. She died in 1940.
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When she arrived the [[Soviet Union]], however, she was shocked by the tyrannical regime of [[Lenin]] and wrote the book ''My Disillusionment in Russia'' (ISBN 048643270X) in 1923.
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When she arrived in the [[Soviet Union]], however, she was shocked by the tyrannical regime of [[Lenin]] and wrote the book ''My Disillusionment in Russia'' (ISBN 048643270X) in 1923.
    
A firebrand revolutionary, she nevertheless insisted on her femininity, and is famous for saying "If I can't dance, I don't want to be in your revolution." However, like other early [[women's rights]] advocates, she did not support [[abortion]].<ref> [http://www.feministsforlife.org/history/foremoth.htm#egoldman Voices of our Feminist Foremothers] </ref>
 
A firebrand revolutionary, she nevertheless insisted on her femininity, and is famous for saying "If I can't dance, I don't want to be in your revolution." However, like other early [[women's rights]] advocates, she did not support [[abortion]].<ref> [http://www.feministsforlife.org/history/foremoth.htm#egoldman Voices of our Feminist Foremothers] </ref>
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