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.
AGNES SMEDLEYWhen I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won’t hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!
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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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Friendship is far more human.
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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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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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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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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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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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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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