Friendship is far more human.
AGNES SMEDLEYThe 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.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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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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I forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.
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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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There are many men – such as those often to be found among the Indians – who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
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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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