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Subjection of any kind and in any place is beneath the dignity of man ... the highest joy is to fight by the side of those who for any reason of their own making or ours, are unable to develop to full human stature.

Agnes Smedley

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Agnes Smedley
Age: 58 †
Born: 1892
Born: February 23
Died: 1950
Died: May 6
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Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
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To die would have been beautiful. But I belong to those who do not die for the sake of beauty.
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I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.
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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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I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be.
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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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When I was a girl, the West was still young, and the law of force, of physical force, was dominant.
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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.
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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. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.
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