![]() ![]() For the grown woman writing her memoirs in 1935 this epiphany symbolized Anna Louise's steadfast, life-long dedication to a Socialist ideal that united all human beings in peace. Whither could I flee from the empty dissensions, from the deadening yet bitter reaction in which the exultant faith of our Seattle revolution so unaccountably had perished?"- Anna Louise Strong, 1935Īnna Louise Strong begins her autobiography I Change Worlds, with a story about herself as a little girl wandering through a garden and realizing, for the first time in her short life, the powerful sensation of loneliness. ![]() There began to arise in me the longing of the pioneer to escape from the insoluble problems of the human society around me. As once I had clung to the hollow form of independence while eastern monopoly took control of my child welfare exhibits, so now I clung to the outworn form of comradeship, though the old comrades called each other traitors. "Out of the conflicts that raged around the Union Record, loneliness and confusion grew for me. ![]() Photo courtesy Seattle Public Library and. A member of the General Strike Committee and columnist for the Union Record, Strong gained notoriety when on the eve of the 1919 strike she penned a front-page editorial, that seemed to call for revolution, entitled No One Knows Where. ![]()
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