So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
AGNES SMEDLEYIt is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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 was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now – yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.
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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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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 was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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