I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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.
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Thousands 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.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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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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Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won’t hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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I 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.
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Friendship is far more human.
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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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But there were years when, in search of what I thought was better, nobler things I denied these, my people, and my family.
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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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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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