Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
AGNES SMEDLEYI shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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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.
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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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