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Catharine MacKinnon Quotes: 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.
         

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.


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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.



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