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Speak of and for America as a whole and address everyone, first and foremost, as Americans.

The women are accessories to a life lived first and foremost among men.

Athol Fugard, South Africa’s foremost dramatist who explored the pervasiveness of apartheid in such searing works as ‘The Blood Knot’ and “‘Master Harold” … and the Boys.’

But these are media organizations first and foremost, not major conglomerates with ample resources to throw at their legal defense.

"There's a subset of people, like 1% of the population, who are psychopaths, who are not worried about the vulnerable, who are worried first and foremost about cementing power and gaining status."