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"It is, no doubt, an immense advantage to have done nothing, but one should not abuse it."
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"The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is one of the most vicious crimes conceivable, a violation of mankind's most basic duty to protect the innocent."
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"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."
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"The landlords are not agriculturists; that is an abuse of terms which has been too long tolerated."
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"The photographs of Iraqi prisoners being subjected to degrading and humiliating treatment by their captors, and the reports of acts of sexual abuse, physical abuse, and other acts of maltreatment shock the conscience."
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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."
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"The interruption did nothing but earn her a similar slap, as I'm sure she knew it would. Sometimes I wondered if my mother spoke up at the wrong time on purpose. As often as we endured my father's abuse, she had to be aware that it wouldn't save me from a beating but simply earn her one as well. Or was it that sharing my fate made her feel less guilt-ridden about those things that happened to me?"
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"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."
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"When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff."
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"If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding."
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"I want to tell you that if the Great Spirit had chosen anyone to be the chief of this country, it is myself."
Nation
"Strangely enough, they have a mind to till the soil, and the love of possessions is a disease in them."
Love
"It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land."
Power
"This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path."
Conflict
"Every seed is awakened, and all animal life."
Life
"They want us to give up another chunk of our tribal land. This is not the first time or the last time."
Time
"If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man, he would have made me so in the first place."
Identity
"The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it."
Man
"I am a red man. If the Great Spirit had desired me to be a white man he would have made me so in the first place."
Identity
"Behold, my friends, the spring is come; the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and we shall soon see the results of their love!"
Friendship
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