I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
AGNES SMEDLEYIt is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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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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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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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 forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man.
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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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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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