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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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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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Bad Holding Leading Little Newspaper Pamphlet Paper Radical Socialist Tract
Friendship is far more human.
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Far Friendship Human More
Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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Beneath Dignity Fighting Joy Kind Man Place Subjection
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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Dead Dialect Erased Now Search Song Tongue Year
Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man.
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Body Boy Fighting Girl Man Strength Tried
I believe only in money, not in love or tenderness. Love and tenderness meant only pain and suffering and defeat.
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Believe Defeat Love Meant Money Pain Suffering Tenderness
New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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Country Destiny Hopeful Impersonal New Strange Vast World
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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Fight Highest Human Making Reason Side Stature Unable
To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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Beautiful Beauty Belong Die Sake
She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners.
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Especially Father Instinctive Men Miner Remember Sympathy Unhesttating Worked
There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
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Army Boy Care Daily Fifty Four Little Prisoner Red Women
So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital.
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Army Boy Doctor Hospital Man Remove Until Wounded
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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Affection Class Considered Day Disaster Family Fathers Kissing Mother Weakness
The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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Subject Technical Theories Treated
My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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Camp During Father Listened Mother News Strike Sympathy
Always before I had felt like a person, an individual, hopeful that I could mold my life according to some desire of my own.
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According Always Before Desire Hopeful Individual Own Person Some
There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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Beheading Death Decisive Dreadfully Dying Something
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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Crushed Decent Developed Environment Inarticulate Made System Thousand Women
For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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First Slan Street The Event Week Worker
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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Better Denied Family Nobler People Search Song Thing Thought Year
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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Capitalist Consequently Food Gambling Great Increased Indoor Mark Month Sport Squash
It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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Concerning India International Longer National Purely Question
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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Found Indian Man Often Qualities Refined Sex Strong Until
I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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Boy Fight Jumped Part Rode Shot Took
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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Another Asked Asking Carefully Circles Joined Leader Leaflet Prepared Print Question Small
Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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Call Country Everybody Feel Safe Spy Surveillance Under
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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Bare Down Fit Help Knock Man Respect Winning Women Yelled

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