Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
AGNES SMEDLEYSubjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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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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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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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 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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