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.
AGNES SMEDLEYMy mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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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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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 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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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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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