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.
AGNES SMEDLEYMuch that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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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 feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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Thousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.
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And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.
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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 settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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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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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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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 subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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