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.
AGNES SMEDLEYFor 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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But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.
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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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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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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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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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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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