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.
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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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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For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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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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Yet it is awful to love a person who is a torture to you. And a fascinating person who loves you and won’t hear of anything but your loving him and living right by his side through all eternity!
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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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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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I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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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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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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