Concrete Quote by Paulo Freire

Historical atrocities have certainly shown that dehumanizing any group is the first step toward genocide.

— Robert Paul Weston

“Yet it is—paradoxical though it may seem—precisely in the response of the oppressed to the violence of their oppressors that a gesture of love…

— Pedagogy of the Oppressed

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

— James Carville

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

“Hatred of oppression still distorts the features, Anger at injustice still makes voices raised and ugly. Oh we, who wished to lay for the…

— Bertolt Brecht

In order for this struggle to have meaning, the oppressed must not, in seeking to regain their humanity (which is a way to create…

— Paulo Freire

A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred.

— Martin Luther King, Jr

“But even though catastrophic oppression brought about a process of objectification and dehumanization, the absolute negation of humanity was not possible because a damaged…

— Clovis E. Semmes

Clearly, we must denounce militaristic approaches to global unrest and find life-affirming ways to end repressive cycles of violence rooted in discrimination, humiliation, and…

— Kimberle Williams Crenshaw

A liberation movement that is nonviolent sets the oppressor free as well as the oppressed.

— Barbara Deming

You don't begin by dehumanizing those who are dehumanizing you, because it contributes to the cycle of dehumanization in the world.

— Cornel West

The greatest humanistic and historical task of the oppressed: to liberate themselves...

— Paulo Freire