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.
AGNES SMEDLEYFriendship is far more human.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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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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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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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now – yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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Friendship is far more human.
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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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