Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
AGNES SMEDLEYI was learning that books and diagrams can be evil things if they deaden the mind of man and make him blind or cynical before subjection of any kind.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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 have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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Friendship is far more human.
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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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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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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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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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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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