So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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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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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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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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