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"... if your heart and your honest body can be controlled by the state, or controlled by community taboo, are you not then, and in that case, no more than a slave ruled by outside force? What tyranny could exceed a tyranny that dictates to the human heart, and that attempts to dictate the public career of an honest human body?"
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Source: June Jordan (2009). “Some of Us Did Not Die: New and Selected Essays”, p.92, Basic Books
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