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It__ the process of being minimized, invalidated, silenced. It__ the process of being subjected to whatever someone else thinks I owe them. It__ the process of being used, examined, explored, and thrown away. It__ the process of being convinced to comply with the orders of someone who does not see me as their equal, someone who sees nothing wrong with the notion that I__ somehow lesser than they are. Rape isn__ about sex; it__ about all those other things. It__ about power.

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I do not see how it is possible for a man to die worth fifty million of dollars, or ten million of dollars, in a city full of want, when he meets almost every day the withered hand of beggary and the white lips of famine. How a man can withstand all that, and hold in the clutch of his greed twenty or thirty million of dollars, is past my comprehension. I do not see how he can do it. I should not think he could do it any more than he could keep a pile of lumber on the beach, where hundreds and thousands of men were drowning in the sea.

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Robert G. Ingersoll

The Liberty of Man, Woman and Child

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How reprehensible it is when those blessed with commodities insist on ignoring the poor. Better to torment them, force them into indentured servitude, inflict compulsion and blows__his at least produces a connection, fury and a pounding heart, and these too constitute a form of relationship. But to cower in elegant homes behind golden garden gates, fearful lest the breath of warm humankind touch you, unable to indulge in extravagances for fear they might be glimpsed by the embittered oppressed, to oppress and yet lack the courage to show yourself as an oppressor, even to fear the ones you are oppressing, feeling ill at ease in your own wealth and begrudging others their ease, to resort to disagreeable weapons that require neither true audacity nor manly courage, to have money, but only money, without splendor: That__ what things look like in our cities at present