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.
AGNES SMEDLEYI forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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Friendship is far more human.
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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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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 would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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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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