Emma Goldman

"Ask for work. If they do not give you work, ask for bread. If they do not give you work or bread, then take bread."

She also found in prison opportunity to study English and its literature, and to familiarize herself with the great American writers. In Bret Harte, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, Thoreau, and Emerson she found great treasures.

There were at the time numerous intellectual oases in New York. The saloon of Justus Schwab, at Number Fifty, First Street