I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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 have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.
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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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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 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 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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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