It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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 here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant–one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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There are many men – such as those often to be found among the Indians – who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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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 joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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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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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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