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.
AGNES SMEDLEYI have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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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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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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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 have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family.
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Gambling in the mark has been the great indoor sport of the capitalists for months, and consequently food has increased by 25 to 100 per cent.
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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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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 shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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