“Our recent history should have made one thing clear. Women's rights are human rights. Any foreign policy that fails to recognize this… — Jack Holland Copy Share Image
Until we learn that other lives are equally grievable and have an equal demand on us to be grieved - especially the… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Demonization of people on the basis of race, religion, sexual orientation, or other criteria leads to dehumanization. The notion that some are… — Kerry Kennedy Copy Share Image
The process of seeking fame is a process of seeking dehumanization. You are looking for it. You want it. But you only… — Hank Green Copy Share Image
“To have assumed, for instance, that the deterioration of language and its debasement was tantamount to dehumanization led straight to cultural fascism.” — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Humankind struggles with collective powers for its freedom, the individual struggles with dehumanization for the possession of his soul. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
A society permissive of rhetorical dehumanization is necessarily more vulnerable to actual dehumanization. Allow racial contempt to spread unchallenged, and racist violence… — Jamelle Bouie Copy Share Image
“Unlike these verses from the Koran, references to dehumanization in the hadith compiled two or three centuries later have a distinctly anti-Jewish… — David Livingstone Smith Copy Share Image
“Should we in America refuse to alter our lifestyle, I believe we will experience increasing dehumanization - of ourselves- both individually and… — Richard Baer Copy Share Image
I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives.… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“You are no longer human, with all those depths and highs and nuances of emotion that define you as a person. There… — Jake Wood Copy Share Image
In the West or anywhere else, the treatment of people in an undignified way (structural and institutionalized racism against Latinos or African… — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
We achieve active mastery over illness and death by delegating all responsibility for their management to physicians, and by exiling the sick… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
If you can laugh with somebody and relate to somebody, it becomes harder to dehumanize them. I think that most of what… — Jehane Noujaim Copy Share Image
We need to undergo a very radical revolution in values. And we need to think about what it's like to have become… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share Image
“During those times, they'd stand there watching me watching them. I'd pray, please. Put a pillow to my face. Clench a hand… — Julie Anne Peters Copy Share Image
“A Conrad student informed me in Scotland that Africa is merely a setting for the disintegration of the mind of Mr. Kurtz.… — Chinua Achebe Copy Share Image
[Christian rebellion] arises from the doctrine of mankind made in the image of God, and therefore protests against all forms of dehumanization.… — John Stott Copy Share Image
I am certainly not proposing that we wait passively for the people in power to change their minds. I think we need… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image
“Traumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community. Those who have survived learn that their sense of self, of worth,… — Judith Lewis Herman Copy Share Image
“It is my belief that the sentence "The end justifies the means"—that suppression, repression, and/or murder become somehow acceptable if committed in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How can the oppressed, as divided, unauthentic beings, participate in developing the pedagogy of their liberation? Only as they discover themselves to… — Paulo Freire Copy Share Image
“Soldier on guard says they've identified “someone on two legs a hundred metres from the outpost”. The other soldier, in the lookout,… — Selma Dabbagh Copy Share Image
“At that time the authorities used to love to set up their concentration camps in former monasteries: they were enclosed by strong… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“I write these words to bear witness to the primacy of resistance struggle in any situation of domination (even within family life);… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
“But even though catastrophic oppression brought about a process of objectification and dehumanization, the absolute negation of humanity was not possible because… — Clovis E. Semmes Copy Share Image
Now, I actually have to a degree, a responsibility to ensure that it doesn't happen again.' I felt pride. When you're up… — Aldis Hodge Copy Share Image
“What we are now witnessing in the 21st century is the fracture or complete breakdown of families, societies, and governments as a… — Liza Lugo Copy Share Image
“Our assignment of worth to others, our unconditional love of even those who would seem most unworthy of it, becomes our response… — John Cullinan Copy Share Image
On the Bigotry of Culture: : it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
“It neither kills outright nor inflicts apparent physical harm, yet the extent of its destructive toll is already greater than that of… — Ashley Montagu Copy Share Image
Suicide is a fundamental human right. This does not mean that it is desirable. It only means that society does not have… — Thomas Szasz Copy Share Image
“The human need to be visible is countered by the need to be invisible to avoid further abuse, and the need for… — Christiane Sanderson Copy Share Image
There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image