Agnes Smedley
Journalist
1892-02-23 – 1950-05-06
Agnes Smedley was an American journalist, writer, and political activist. She reported extensively on China in the early twentieth century and published both fiction and memoir. Her work connected anti-imperialist politics with frontline war reporting.
Quotes by Agnes Smedley
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Everybody calls everybody a spy, secretly, in Russia, and everybody is under surveillance. You never feel safe.
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Germany is in terrible condition this year. This is particularly true of the working masses, who are so undernourished that tuberculosis is having a rich harvest, particularly of adolescent children.
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I feel like a person living on the brink of a volcano crater.
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