Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
AGNES SMEDLEYYet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won’t hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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No one yet knows what a man’s province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.
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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.
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Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
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Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.
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I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now – yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England’s back forever and free Europe itself.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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The highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.
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