Quotes about Dehumanization

The corrupting and corrosive lifestyles he describes are not arbitrary, but rather the result, the consequence, of the original idolatry. This doesn't mean that God is not involved in those consequences. God, as Creator, hates the idolatry and dehumanization that deface and damage his beautiful world and his image-bearing creatures. Unless that is so, God is not a good God, but a careless, faceless bureaucrat.

They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.

The darkest hours of history have always been born of the efforts of one people to dehumanize another.

Anger, resentment, lust for revenge, even success through aggressive competitiveness, are corrosive of this good. To forgive is not just to be altruistic. It is the best form of self-interest. What dehumanizes you inexorably dehumanizes me. It gives people resilience, enabling them to survive and emerge still human despite all efforts to dehumanize them. When uhuru, or freedom and independence

Fundamental violations of human rights always lead to people feeling less and less human.

Racism, xenophobia and unfair discrimination have spawned slavery, when human beings have bought and sold and owned and branded fellow human beings as if they were so many beasts of burden.

But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.

Men and women, old and young, married and single, were ranked with horses, sheep, and swine

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

That anybody white could take your whole self for anything that came to mind. Not just work, kill, or maim you, but dirty you. Dirty you so bad you couldn't like yourself anymore. Dirty you so bad you forgot who you were and couldn't think it up.

God became man that dehumanized men might become true men. We become true men in the community of the incarnate, the suffering and loving, the human God.

My God, what have they done to you? This isn't a man, it's a broken kite.