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.
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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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 forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
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No one yet knows what a man’s province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.
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Friendship is far more human.
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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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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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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 no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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