My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
AGNES SMEDLEYI would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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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 was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
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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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I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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