Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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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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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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In the little hall leading to it was a rack holding various Socialist or radical newspapers, tracts, and pamphlets in very small print and on very bad paper.
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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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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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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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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 would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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