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WOMEN ARE PEOPLE!
But women are toiling in them, toiling like slaves.
Are they your goddesses?
Congressman (confused):
Yes.
Cleopatra:
Surely the old man raves!
I know the fate of captives and slaves of the East:
They must work till they die, or are sold like a beast.
This man owns them by thousands. They toil amid wheels that grind.
They are his slaves.
Congressman (faintly):
No, queens.
Cleopatra (angrily):
The man is mad or blind.
Pallas:
Nay, nay, Daughter of Egypt, he is neither blind nor mad,
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