My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
AGNES SMEDLEYI 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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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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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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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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