Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
AGNES SMEDLEYThousands of women are crushed and made inarticulate by that system and never develop as their natures would force them to develop were they in a decent environment.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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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 have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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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 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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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 forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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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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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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