I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
AGNES SMEDLEYYet 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!
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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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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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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Friendship is far more human.
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Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own.
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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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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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