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Agnes Smedley

Agnes Smedley

American Journalist

Born: Feb 23, 1892

Died: May 6, 1950

Class Living Man Men Mother Strong

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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. Agnes Smedley

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

Living Volcano Feel Like Person Brink

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

You Everybody Secretly Russia Never Feel Safe Calls Spy Surveillance

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

Events First Aid Week Worker Streets

No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial. Agnes Smedley

Today Man No-One Conceived Knows How How Far Province Artificial Far

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

Fire Setting Consumed He Couple Always Up Again Ashes Them

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. Agnes Smedley

Strength Man Girl Took Be A Man Tried Part Boy Rode Lack Being Being A Girl Ashamed Shot Body Fights Now

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. 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. 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. Agnes Smedley

Family Class Mother Father Affection Considered Sign Weakness Would Kissing Like Disaster Caught Been Disgrace Show Shown

More and more do I see that only a successful revolution in India can break England's back forever and free Europe itself. It is not a national question concerning India any longer; it is purely international. Agnes Smedley

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

Imagination Russia Only Read Much Desire

So I had to be the doctor to these wounded men until we could remove them to the hospital. There were fifty-four women and forty little boys with the Red Army prisoners, and I went daily to take care of them also. Agnes Smedley

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