I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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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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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 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 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 always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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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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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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