I forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
AGNES SMEDLEYThe subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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 feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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 would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won’t hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!
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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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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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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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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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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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