In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper.
AGNES SMEDLEYSubjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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.
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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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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant–one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.
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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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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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