I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
AGNES SMEDLEYI 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.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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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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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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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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