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Sometimes I feel bowed down by the shame I witness around me. Heavy friends ashamed of their weight. Writers apologizing in advance for their words. Older friends ashamed of their aging looks. People ashamed of their jobs, incomes, homes, education or lack of it. The thing is that shame is a growth industry and it makes a lot of people a lot of money. All you profiteers out there feeling better from making others feel lesser: shame on you.

Injustice, by Piyassili, Assyria, 1218 BC

The people who are made to feel ashamed every day
are not the people who should feel ashamed.
The people who should feel ashamed
are the people unable to feel ashamed
yet heap shame by the bundle every day
on the troubled, the poor and despised.

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