I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
AGNES SMEDLEYEverybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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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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No one yet knows what a man’s province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.
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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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 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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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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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