There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
AGNES SMEDLEYIt is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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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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Yet 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!
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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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 feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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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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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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