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.
AGNES SMEDLEYI have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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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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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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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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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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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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 would not let it ruin me as it ruined others! I would speak only with money, hard money.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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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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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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But here in New York I was ignorant, insignificant, unimportant–one in millions whose destiny concerned no one. New York did not even know of my existence. Nor did it care.
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