For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
AGNES SMEDLEYI shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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.
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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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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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Friendship is far more human.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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