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.
AGNES SMEDLEYSubjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family.
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Friendship is far more human.
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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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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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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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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
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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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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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