Follow Quote by Jamelle Bouie

When you dehumanize a group, there's lasting consequences because they know that they're being dehumanized.

— James Carville

One way that whites protect their positions when challenged on race is to invoke the discourse of self-defense. Through this discourse, whites characterize themselves…

— Robin DiAngelo

For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at…

— Tavi Gevinson

Dehumanization, although a concrete historical fact, is not a given destiny but the result of an unjust order that engenders violence in the oppressors,…

— Paulo Freire

A racist system inevitably destroys and damages human beings; it brutalizes and dehumanizes them, blacks and whites alike.

— Kenneth Clark

It is no solution to define words as violence or prejudice as oppression, and then by cracking down on words or thoughts pretend that…

— Jonathan Rauch

“Racist words and vulgar threats will puncture down deep to the soul.”

— Angela Brown

Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging.

— John Piper

The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or denial), in…

— Jean Genet

The problem with hatred and violence is that they intensity the fears of the white majority, and leave them less ashamed of their prejudices…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“Violence isn't only bombs and bullets, it can be speaking words that dehumanize and looking away when someone needs you to lean in and…

— Diana Oestreich

“Many DEI trainings and narratives have indeed enabled or produced types of people who seem to be looking for excuses to be offended and…

— Louis Yako