Instantly a passion of tenderness, of grief for his humiliation swamped her, made her eyes sting. It was as though someone had been senselessly brutal to a child.
And the history that we have in this country is not just a history of vicious neglect and a targeted abuse of black communities, it's also one where we lose our attention for it.
" I've brutalized many men into shape but I wouldn't take a chance on half the number of women. Especially this 'kind' bullying--what good does it do anybody? --you or him or anybody" ?
They are afraid because the abuser might threaten them with immigrations, or I'm gonna send you back home and my home might not be an option for her, so then she accept the abuse over and over again.