It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
AGNES SMEDLEYMore and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England’s back forever and free Europe itself.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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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 was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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