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I shall call upon my fellow women. We will fight the white men. We will fight until the last of us falls in the battlefields.
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The speaker calls on other women to join a collective fight against white men. The struggle is presented as a battle that will continue until every woman involved has fallen. “Battlefields” gives the statement a literal wartime image, while “the last of us” stresses complete commitment and the possibility of total loss.
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