I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
AGNES SMEDLEY
For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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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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I would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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Friendship is far more human.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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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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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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I joined another circle and the leader gave us a little leaflet in very small print, asking us to read it carefully and then come prepared to ask questions.
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