I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
AGNES SMEDLEYTo die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper.
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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 shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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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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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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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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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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