Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
AGNES SMEDLEYFor the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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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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Friendship is far more human.
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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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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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Gambling 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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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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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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