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Agnes Smedley

"In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents."

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"In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents."

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Donna Grant

"They never fail who die in a great cause."

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Donna Grant

"Every man is a creative cause of what happens, a primum mobile with an original movement."

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Donna Grant

"An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason."

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Donna Grant

"For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going."

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Donna Grant

"We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause."

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Donna Grant

"So inscrutable is the arrangement of causes and consequences in this world, that a two-penny duty on tea, unjustly imposed in a sequestered part of it, changes the condition of all its inhabitants."

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Donna Grant

"A cause that only serves me is much like a door on the edge of a cliff, it doesn't open to anywhere good."

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Donna Grant

"As much purity one has within, his external circumstances will be that much more favorable. As much impurity there is within, there will be a corresponding amount of unfavorable external circumstances."

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Donna Grant

"I wanted to cause trouble, but I know now it stays with you."

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Donna Grant

"Don't speak of action [effect]. Don't serve the action [effect]. It is a result. But serve the causes [do the causes]. Nothing will be achieved unless you serve the cause."

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Agnes Smedley
"Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys."

Strength

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Agnes Smedley
"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."

Man

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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
"In one hotel, the maid who built the fire fainted in our room. Exhaustion was the cause. We talked with her later and learned that she worked 17 hours a day and makes 95 marks a month - about 50 cents."

Cause

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Agnes Smedley
"When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant."

Force

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Agnes Smedley
"I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be."

Being

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Agnes Smedley
"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. The subjects treated were technical Marxist theories."

Politics

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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
"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."

Family

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Agnes Smedley
"Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only."

Imagination

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