More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England’s back forever and free Europe itself.
AGNES SMEDLEYI would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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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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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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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 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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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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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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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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Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own.
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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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