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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."

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"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."

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Donna Grant

"A King will have his way in his own hall, be it folly or wisdom."

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Donna Grant

"The government of any nation always represents the most corrupt part of a nation."

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Donna Grant

"A nation with a thousand awakened citizens and a corrupt leader, is much more alive than a nation with an awakened leader and a thousand corrupt citizens."

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Donna Grant

"As you read in The Art of Being, having a heart of service and generosity is a powerful state of being and a positive way to make a great first impression through valuing others. "Service Beyond Self" encourages you to take deliberate action steps to rise above self-interest and ask what you can do for others, not what they can do for you."

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Donna Grant

"Leaders console the world with their speeches, heroes console the world with their actions."

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Donna Grant

"Africa! Africa! Africa! Africa my motherland!Africa, your people cries for you!Africans must educate their citizens. Africans must reach out to it's people and empower them to build the nation. Africans you are the only people who can liberated your citizens from poverty through education. Africans must pay the price to rebuild the continent."

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Donna Grant

"The level of a leader is determined by his sphere of influence."

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Donna Grant

"The leaderly response to personal irritation is to relax and open up not push, run, or close down."

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Donna Grant

"Establish your system of control to see that your team does there job."

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Donna Grant

"It was due to his tact, to his judgment, to his sympathetic manipulation of human beings that the atmosphere had always been such a happy one... If there was a change, therefore, the change must be due to the man at the top."

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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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