The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.
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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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