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.
AGNES SMEDLEYAnd the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.
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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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 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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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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