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.
AGNES SMEDLEYBut settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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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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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 loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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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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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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 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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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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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