There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
AGNES SMEDLEYEverybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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 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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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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There are many men – such as those often to be found among the Indians – who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.
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Friendship is far more human.
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