without recompense

What is offered to another person without reservation can also be taken without recompense.

Unwilling to share her traumas without recompense, Cash initiates a barter: a tale for a tale.

The report also found that Mr. King’s actions were part of a larger pattern of abuse endured by his staff members that included threats of violence; making them answer to and do work for his wife, a union executive; and ordering them to drive him around in their personal cars without recompense.

Left unclear all this time later is whether Americans can appreciate the extent to which her act made real a primal, angry desire lurking within an entire gender made to suffer indignities, physically violent and psychological, largely in silent and without recompense.

This is so even if it means that innocent people often die without recompense, and that their blood forever calls out to us from the very soil we walk upon.