It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
AGNES SMEDLEYBut settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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 forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
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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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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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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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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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