More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England’s back forever and free Europe itself.
AGNES SMEDLEYAnd 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.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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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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I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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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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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 have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant–one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.
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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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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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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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