But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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 have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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Friendship is far more human.
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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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Like all my family and class, I considered it a sign of weakness to show affection; to have been caught kissing my mother would have been a disgrace, and to have shown affection for my father would have been a disaster.
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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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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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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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So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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