So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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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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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.
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