But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family.
AGNES SMEDLEYIn 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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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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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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I forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man.
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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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