I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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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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Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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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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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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