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.
AGNES SMEDLEYSubjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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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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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 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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