There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also.
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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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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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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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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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.
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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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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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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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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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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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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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