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.
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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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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 would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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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.
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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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