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Page 2 of 2Agnes Smedley
February 23, 1892 - May 6, 1950
Nationality: American
Category: Journalist
Subcategory: American Journalist
|  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. | | 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. | | I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater. | | I have no objection to a man being a man, however masculine that may be. | | 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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