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.
AGNES SMEDLEYI would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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I was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.
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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own.
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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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But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family.
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