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.
AGNES SMEDLEYFriendship is far more human.
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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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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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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