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 SMEDLEYMy mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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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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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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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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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 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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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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Friendship is far more human.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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