Word: chattel
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...They didn't call us immigrants then...they called us chattel, property," he said. "This is a history of oppression. This is a history of targeting a group of people to do the work...
...want to go into polemics, but any society in which two innocent Japanese students in Los Angeles can be shot dead because someone wanted their car has gone fundamentally wrong. Too many guns, and such a distortion of values that two human lives can be disposed of for chattel. We take a fundamentally different approach. We believe we had to take strong measures to make sure that people understand that other people's lives, their persons and properties have to be respected...
...same: kids run away to escape domineering parents or because they are being physically or sexually abused, or they are kicked out because their parents can't or don't want to take care of them. Some children fall into prostitution through abduction or trickery. Easy prey, they become chattel for the sex merchants. Sasha says Marik was sold to him for a case of vodka, while he found Volodya abandoned at the Moscow railway station -- together with thousands of other youngsters who have turned the terminal into a street urchin's paradise. Once victimized by the violent gangsters...
Paying money for a baby is not even the issue, because when a couple adopts a baby, they generally have to pay the adoption agency. The surrogate mother is the only one who could potentially be exploited and turned into a baby-harvesting chattel. Such a law discourages surrogate mothers rather than protects them...
...institution of slavery was a diabolical attempt to rob an entire race of people of its humanity, to turn human dignity into saleable chattel. Those who defend the flag as a symbol of Southern pride and hospitality miss completely the pain and offense it causes to so many. Certainly members of the Harvard community should know better...