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 forgot the songs they sung – and most of those songs are now dead; I erased their dialect from my tongue.
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My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike.
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But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.
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There’s something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.
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It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international.
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New York was a new and strange world. Vast, impersonal, merciless.
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I have always detested the belief that sex is the chief bond between man and woman.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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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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Friendship is far more human.
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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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Professors could silence me then; they had figures, diagrams, maps, books.
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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man.
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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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It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask.
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