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 SMEDLEYWhen I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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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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 would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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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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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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