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"Rape, mutilation, abuse, and theft are the natural outcome of a world in which force rules, in which human beings are objects."
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"Maybe none of this is about control. Maybe it really isn't about who can own whom, who can do what to whom and get away with it, even as far as death. Maybe it isn't about who can sit and who has to kneel or stand or lie down, legs spread open. Maybe it's about who can do what to whom and be forgiven for it. Never tell me it amounts to the same thing."
"We have copped a lot of ignorant abuse in the past, but it makes you wonder when a former state coroner openly attacks Aboriginal families who have been through hell."
"Better a thousandfold abuse of free speech than denial of free speech."
"I'd never felt so helpless - so hopeless - in my life as I did there. To be completely under someone's power, with no one to turn to for help, to make someone feel like they're at fault for you hurting them . . . I realized that was exactly what I'd done to Carly. That hangs over me every day."
"You couldn't not notice the bruise on the side of her face. Or the hickey under her chin."
"We must ensure that while eliminating child labor in the export industry, we are also eliminating their labour from the informal sector, which is more invisible to public scrutiny - and thus leaves the children more open to abuse and exploitation."
"Let's suppose somebody abused you sexually. You still had a choice, though not a good one, about what to tell yourself about the abuse."
"Democracy is an abuse of statistics."
"Unfortunately, the current format for this lottery program are subject to fraud and abuse and leave our nation exposed to those who may seek to do harm on American soil."
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