More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England’s back forever and free Europe itself.
AGNES SMEDLEYSo I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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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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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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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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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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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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I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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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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But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant–one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.
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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 believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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