Friendship is far more human.
AGNES SMEDLEYThe 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.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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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 would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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