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Agnes Smedley

"For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak."

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Amber Hurdle

"If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but just because the contention is reversed and each side is fighting the other side's battle, all the bitterness which really flows from thwarted self-righteousness and obstinacy and from the accumulated grudges of the last ten years is concealed from them by the nominal or official "Unselfishness" of what they are doing or, at least, held to be excused by it."

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Amber Hurdle

"Leo grabbed the neasrest thing he could find- a Porta-Potty seat- and threw it at the face. Leve me alone!"

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Amber Hurdle

"Only the winner and coward may survive."

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Amber Hurdle

"How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy."

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Amber Hurdle

"This is an enemy for life, as well as an enemy of life."

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Amber Hurdle

"I get in that kind of situation all the time, Comrade. It's not a big deal." Anger replaced my fear. I didn't like being treated like a child. "Stop calling me that. You don't even know what you're talking about." "Sure I do. I had to do a report on the R.S.S.R. last year."

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Amber Hurdle

"The enemy is over there and we are still seeking revenge from the nature."

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Amber Hurdle

"Fight the darkness. Fight for the light."

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Amber Hurdle

"Arrogant people beat each other."

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Amber Hurdle

"No sooner is there a good thing in the world, than a division is necessary."

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Agnes Smedley
"For months it seemed that a revolution was certain. But instead, slavery seems more likely now. The working class no longer has the physical resistance for a revolution, and the Entente is too strong, and Russia is too weak."

Conflict

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Agnes Smedley
"For the first week of the Sian events I was a first aid worker in the streets of Sian."

Events

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Agnes Smedley
"What a couple. I'm consumed into ashes. And he's always raking up the ashes and setting them on fire again."

Fire

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Agnes Smedley
"I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater."

Living

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Agnes Smedley
"And the woman who could win the respect of man was often the woman who could knock him down with her bare fists and sit on him until he yelled for help."

Help

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Agnes Smedley
"My mother listened to all the news from the camp during the strike. She said little, especially when my father or the men who worked for him were about I remember her instinctive and unhesitating sympathy for the miners."

Man

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Agnes Smedley
"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."

Nature

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Agnes Smedley
"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. It was a technical Marxist subject and I did not understand it nor did I know what questions to ask."

Leadership

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Agnes Smedley
"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."

Woman

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Agnes Smedley
"Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe."

Politics

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