I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
AGNES SMEDLEYSubjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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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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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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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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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 would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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