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.
AGNES SMEDLEYShe 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.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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