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.
AGNES SMEDLEYI feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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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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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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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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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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Friendship is far more human.
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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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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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