I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions.
AGNES SMEDLEYIt is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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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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She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
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And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.
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Friendship is far more human.
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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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