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.
AGNES SMEDLEYSubjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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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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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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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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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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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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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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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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