More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England’s back forever and free Europe itself.
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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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 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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I was ashamed of them and their ways of life. But now – yes, I love them; they are a part of my blood; they, with all their virtues and their faults, played a great part in forming my way of looking at life.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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