I would much rather be the obnoxious feminist girl than be…

[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization. It sets…

— John Stott

A society permissive of rhetorical dehumanization is necessarily more vulnerable to actual dehumanization. Allow racial contempt to spread unchallenged, and racist violence will eventually…

— Jamelle Bouie

“In the face of such terror and dehumanization, human passion itself was an act of defiance.”

— Guillermo del Toro

Property damage is so much easier to live with than murder.

— Peter Watts

“Our assignment of worth to others, our unconditional love of even those who would seem most unworthy of it, becomes our response to those…

— John Cullinan

This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is…

— Laura Hillenbrand

“You are no longer human, with all those depths and highs and nuances of emotion that define you as a person. There is no…

— Jake Wood

“But on Kwajalein, the guards sought to deprive them of something that had sustained them even as all else had been lost: dignity. This…

— Laura Hillenbrand

“Soldier on guard says they've identified “someone on two legs a hundred metres from the outpost”. The other soldier, in the lookout, says “A…

— Selma Dabbagh

“It neither kills outright nor inflicts apparent physical harm, yet the extent of its destructive toll is already greater than that of any war,…

— Ashley Montagu

“One of the reasons a survivor finds it so difficult to see herself as a victim is that she has been blamed repeatedly for…

— Diane Langberg

“During those times, they'd stand there watching me watching them. I'd pray, please. Put a pillow to my face. Clench a hand around my…

— Julie Anne Peters

I'm really interested in violence. And I think there's an inevitably cinematic property that violence brings to the moviegoing experience. But one still has…

— Karyn Kusama

“Nothing disrupts dehumanization more quickly than inviting someone over, looking into their eyes, hearing their voice, and listening.”

— Sarah Schulman

Our dehumanization of the Negro then is indivisible from our dehumanization of ourselves; the loss of our own identity is the price we pay…

— James A. Baldwin