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.
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 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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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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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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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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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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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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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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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