For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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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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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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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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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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.
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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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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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