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 SMEDLEYI believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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Friendship is far more human.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions.
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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 are many men – such as those often to be found among the Indians – who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.
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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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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 shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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