Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
AGNES SMEDLEYI forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
More Agnes Smedley Quotes
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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 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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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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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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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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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories.
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