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.
AGNES SMEDLEYI 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.
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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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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 subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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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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