Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
AGNES SMEDLEYSubjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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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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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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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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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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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 believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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Friendship is far more human.
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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 forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
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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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