For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
AGNES SMEDLEYThe subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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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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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 would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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 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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