I forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
AGNES SMEDLEYSubjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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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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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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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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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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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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