I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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 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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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family.
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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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