I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
AGNES SMEDLEYSubjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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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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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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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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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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Friendship is far more human.
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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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