What can they do?
They can do anything
you can't stop them
from doing.
[...]
It goes on one at a time,
it starts when you care
to act, it starts when you do
it again and they said no,
it starts when you say We
and know you who you mean, and each
day you mean one more.
Marge Piercy, The Low Road
http://www.pacifict.com/ron/Piercy.html