Rather than looking for explanations for why all people deserve to be treated with compassion and respect, we ought to be working at creating a world in which people are treated with compassion and respect....

Dehumanization isn’t a way of talking. It’s a way of thinking—a way of thinking that, sadly, comes all too easily to us. Dehumanization is a scourge, and has been so for millennia. It acts as...

People who put principles before people are people who hate people. They don’t much care about how well it works, just about how right it is … they may even like it better if it...

It is arguable […] that a further effect of our partiality for members of our own species is a tendency to decreased sensitivity to the lives and well-being of those sentient beings that are not...

What we are now witnessing in the 21st century is the fracture or complete breakdown of families, societies, and governments as a result of centuries of dehumanization that have taken a toll. More natural disasters...

On the Bigotry of Culture:: it presented us with culture, with thought as something justified in itself, that is, which requires no justification but is valid by it’s own essence, whatever its concrete employment and...

Institutionalized rejection of difference is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people.

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 throat. Stab me. Shoot me. Put me out of everyone’s misery.Why...

Unless one lives and loves in the trenches, it is difficult to remember that the war against dehumanization is ceaseless.

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

In the interests of separation, Black women have been taught to view each other as always suspect, heartless competitors for the scarce male, the all-important prize that could legitimize our existence. This dehumanizing denial of...

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

Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple greed will be far less destructive, because the aggressor will be careful not...

if this is a man who labours in the mud/ who knows no peace/ who fights for a crust of bread?” […] my thesis being that the occupation, the closures, the siege have made amputees...

Private Latimer had become a monster, and he must have guessed this was so. Did a girl love him before? Could she continue to?

Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.