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.
AGNES SMEDLEYLike 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.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that 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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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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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 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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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