Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
AGNES SMEDLEYShe 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.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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.
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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 feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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