There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
AGNES SMEDLEYThere 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.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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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 forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England’s back forever and free Europe itself.
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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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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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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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And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help.
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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