Quote by Andrea Dworkin
The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isol

The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable. – Andrea Dworkin

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Undernourished, intelligence becomes like the bloated belly of a starving child: swollen, filled with nothing the body can use. – Andrea Dworkin

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Feminism is hated because women are hated. Anti-feminism is a direct expression of misogyny it is the political defense of women hating. – Andrea Dworkin

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Marriage as an institution developed from rape as a practice. Rape, originally defined as abduction, became marriage by capture. Marriage meant the taking was to extend in time, to be not only use of but possession of, or ownership. – Andrea Dworkin

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To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs — a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days. – Edward Hoagland

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Slavery is so intolerable a condition that the slave can hardly escape deluding himself into thinking that he is choosing to obey his masters commands when, in fact, he is obliged to. Most slaves of habit suffer from this delusion and so do some writers, enslaved by an all too personal style. – W. H. Auden

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I pity them greatly, but I must be mum, for how could we do without sugar and rum? – William Cowper

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Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil. – Edmund Burke

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It is a wise person that adapts themselves to all contingencies; its the fool who always struggles like a swimmer against the current. – Source Unknown

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