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 SMEDLEYGambling 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.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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 forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man.
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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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