I forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
AGNES SMEDLEYIt is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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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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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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 always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.
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