Friendship is far more human.
AGNES SMEDLEYThe subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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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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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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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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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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