"To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status."

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"To be a prisoner means to be defined as a member of a group for whom the rules of what can be done to you, of what is seen as abuse of you, are reduced as part of the definition of your status."

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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."

Margaret Atwood, Canadian Novelist

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"This October, we renew the fight against domestic violence and abuse in America. Together, we can eliminate domestic violence from homes across the country and ensure that our children grow up in healthy, peaceful communities."

Lucille Roybal Allard, American Politician

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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."

Chris Hedges, American Journalist

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"What white man has ever seen me drunk? Who has ever come to me hungry and left me unfed? Who has seen me beat my wives or abuse my children? What law have I broken?"

Sitting Bull, Lakotan Statesman

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"I think the dangers are different now. Our abuse of the planet and our resources is an anxiety."

Carol Ann Duffy, British Poet

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"Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse."

Alan Greenspan, American Economist

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"When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

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"Let's face it. Umpiring is not an easy or happy way to make a living. In the abuse they suffer, and the pay they get for it, you see an imbalance that can only be explained by their need to stay close to a game they can't resist."

Bob Uecker, American Athlete

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"Judicial abuse occurs when judges substitute their own political views for the law."

Lamar S. Smith, American Politician

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"The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms."

James F. Cooper, American Novelist

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"What postmodernism gives us instead is a multicultural defense for male violence - a defense for it wherever it is, which in effect is a pretty universal defense."

Defence

"Postmodernism is an academic theory, originating in academia with an academic elite, not in the world of women and men, where feminist theory is rooted."

Woman

"In a society in which equality is a fact, not merely a word, words of racial or sexual assault and humiliation will be nonsense syllables."

Equality

"In not having an appointment at Harvard, I'm in the company of a great many people whose work I admire tremendously, in particular women of color."

Woman

"So the idea that there is nothing essential, in the sense that there are no human universals, is dogma. Ask most anyone who is going to be shot at dawn."

Creativity

"Politically, I call it rape whenever a woman has sex and feels violated."

Sex

"Can postmodernism hold the perpetrators of genocide accountable?"

Question

"Men who are in prison for rape think it's the dumbest thing that ever happened... they were put in jail for something very little different from what most men do most of the time and call it sex. The only difference is they got caught. It may also be true."

Man

"If you want to know who is being hurt in this society, go see what is being done and to whom in pornography and then go look for them other places in the world."

Society

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