Discorso alla giuria nel caso USA contro Emma Goldman e Alexander Berkman
- Lingua:
- inglese
- Stato:
- Opera completa
- Autorialità:
- Scritta dall'autore
- Stato del testo:
- Nessun rumore di scansione rilevato (misura automatica su tutto il testo, non verificata a mano)
- Estensione:
- ~5680 parole · 27 passi
Cita quest'opera
- APAEmma Goldman. (n.d.). Address to the Jury in U.S. v. Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman [Discorso alla giuria nel caso USA contro Emma Goldman e Alexander Berkman]. Digital reproduction: SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/emma-goldman/address-to-the-jury-in-u-s-v-emma-goldman-and-alexander-berkman
- MLAEmma Goldman. Address to the Jury in U.S. v. Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman [Discorso alla giuria nel caso USA contro Emma Goldman e Alexander Berkman]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi, https://sigphiai.com/it/works/emma-goldman/address-to-the-jury-in-u-s-v-emma-goldman-and-alexander-berkman.
- ChicagoEmma Goldman. Address to the Jury in U.S. v. Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman [Discorso alla giuria nel caso USA contro Emma Goldman e Alexander Berkman]. Digital reproduction, SigPhi. https://sigphiai.com/it/works/emma-goldman/address-to-the-jury-in-u-s-v-emma-goldman-and-alexander-berkman.
Riferimento dell'edizione che SigPhi riproduce: SigPhi ne è la riproduzione digitale, non l'editore. L'anno dell'edizione non figura nei metadati (da qui «n.d.») e il traduttore compare solo quando è noto.
Di che cosa tratta
Quello che Goldman disse alla giuria che la giudicava, nel 1917, per la campagna contro la leva obbligatoria.
Contesto e storia
Una delle grandi arringhe della storia giudiziaria americana: non chiede l'assoluzione, difende il diritto di opporsi alla guerra. Furono condannati lo stesso — due anni di carcere e poi l'espulsione — e il discorso è sopravvissuto alla sentenza. Questo è un articolo breve, non un libro: la sua lunghezza nel catalogo non è un difetto della copia. Buona parte dell'opera di Goldman ha questa forma, sulla sua rivista Mother Earth e in opuscoli.
Contesto editoriale, non una fonte citabile: a differenza dei passi dell'opera, questi dati non si possono verificare sul corpus.
Your Government is allied with the French Republic. Need I call your attention to the historic fact that the great upheaval in France was brought about by extra-legal means? The Dantes, the Robespierres, the Marats, the Herberts, aye even the man who is responsible for the most stirring revolutionary music, the Marseillaise (which unfortunately has deteriorated into a war tune) even Camille Desmoulins, were never within the law. But for those great pioneers and rebels, France would have continued under the yoke of the idle Louis XVI., to whom the sport of shooting jack rabbits was more important than the destiny of the people of France. Ah, gentlemen, on the very day when we were being tried for conspiracy and overt acts, your city officials and representatives welcomed with music and festivities the Russian Commission. Are you aware of the fact that nearly all of the members of that Commission have only recently been released from exile? The ideas they propagated were never within the law. For nearly a hundred years, from 1825 to 1917, the Tree of Liberty in Russia was watered by the blood of her martyrs. No greater heroism, no nobler lives had ever been dedicated to humanity. Not one of them worked within the law. I could continue to enumerate almost endlessly the hosts of men and women in every land and in every period whose ideas and ideals redeemed the world because they were not within the law. Never can a new idea move within the law. It matters not whether that idea pertains to political and social changes or to any other domain of human thought and expression--to science, literature, music; in fact, everything that makes for freedom and joy and beauty must refuse to move within the law. How can it be otherwise? The law is stationary, fixed, mechanical, "a chariot wheel" which grinds all alike without regard to time, place and condition, without ever taking into account cause and effect, without ever going into the complexity of the human soul.…