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.
AGNES SMEDLEYFor the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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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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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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Friendship is far more human.
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