My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
AGNES SMEDLEYGambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.
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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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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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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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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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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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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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