“If a young girl is being forced into a brothel she will not talk about her rights. In such a situation the word would sound ludicrously inadequate.”

—  Simone Weil

Source: Simone Weil : An Anthology (1986), Human Personality (1943), p. 63

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French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist 1909–1943

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