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The weakness of men is the facade of strength the strength of women is the facade of weakness.

Warren Farrell

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Warren Farrell
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: June 26
Activist
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Civil Rights Advocate
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We always look at the 'Fortune ,' and we say, men in power, but we don't look at the glass cellar as opposed to the glass ceiling and say, men also are the homeless, men are also the ones that are the garbage collectors. Men are also the ones dying in construction sites that aren't properly supervised for safety hazards.
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We can decrease abuse and murder when we get that for both sexes, abuse does not derive from power, but powerlessness.
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