New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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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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Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man.
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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.
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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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