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“only a year after the outbreak of plague Edward III enacted the Ordinance of Labourers, which sought to cap wage increases and curb this new-found mobility. With its extra stipulation that any beggar who was deemed able to work should be refused charity, it is also the first time in English law that we see the distinction between the deserving and undeserving poor, a pathological obsession of the English that lasts to this day.”
― Nick Hayes, The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us

“Walls look like order; but more often than not a wall stands at the precise fulcrum of an imbalance in society. Most walls are only necessary as a means of defending the resources of those that have them from those that lack them. In this way, though they present themselves as mechanisms of security, they are in fact tools of oppression.”
― Nick Hayes, The Book of Trespass: Crossing the Lines that Divide Us

“Women who do not ask for permission are powerful.”
― Mona Eltahawy, The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls

“She asked why it happens? Keeps happening? What exact regime teaches males to take what isn’t given? What riles them?”
― Inua Ellams, The Half-God of Rainfall: A Powerful Epic Poem of Yoruba Deities and Greek Mythology Across the Ages