The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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 have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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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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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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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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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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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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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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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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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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