It is little wonder that rape is one of the least-reported crimes. Perhaps it is the only crime in which the victim becomes the ac...cused and, in reality, it is she who must prove her good reputation, her mental soundness, and her impeccable propriety.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rape is a culturally fostered means of suppressing women. Legally we say we deplore it, but mythically we romanticize and perpetua...te it, and privately we excuse and overlook it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As long as there is rape ... there is not going to be any peace or justice or equality or freedom. You are not going to become wha...t you want to become or who you want to become. You are not going to live in the world you want to live in.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Rape is no excess, no aberration, no accident, no mistake--it embodies sexuality as the culture defines it. As long as these defin...itions remain intact--that is, as long as men are defined as sexual aggressors and women are defined as passive receptors lacking integrity--men who are exemplars of the norm will rape women.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think the people over here are coming to realize what would happen if Germany and Italy won a European war. We would be out of t...he picture entirely.... If I were a German conqueror what would I do? Obviously I would have the British navy out of the way and the French army out of the way.... The first thing I would do is look around and say, "What outside territories do I want to take for myself?"... We are not quite ready to take on the United States but we can do it by indirection very nicely. We are going to dominate South America ... without violating the Monroe Doctrine. [FDR set forth a scenario of economic domination of Latin America by giving Argentina a choice of agreeing to German domination of its army by economic blackmail by virtue of the fact that Germany controlled all the agricultural markets in Europe on which Argentina depended for livelihood and the same for Brazil.] It is a perfectly open and shut thing and, if you have the complete, physical power to do it, you win.... [F]rom Hitler's point of view, it is rational. And, if any of us were in his place, with his methods, we would do it. I made myself a hump-back, dyed my skin in several places with great spots of yellow; so that, when I look'd in the glass, I was almost frighten'd at my own figure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »