Dehumanization

All Quiet on the

All Quiet on the Western Front. Erich Maria Remarque

There are similarities between

There are similarities between absolute power and absolute faith: a demand for absolute obedience, a readiness to attempt the impossible, a bias for simple solutionsto cut the knot rather than unravel it, the viewing of compromise as surrender. Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence, absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as … Read more

Absolute faith corrupts as

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. Eric Hoffer

He was so terrible

He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized. F. Scott Fitzgerald

You don’t begin by

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

I am certainly not

I am certainly not proposing that we wait passively for the people in power to change their minds. I think we need to be confrontational, to expose the truth in ways that are uncomfortable and that, yes, require courage. What I caution against is using hateful rhetoric to inspire action, and I see a lot … Read more

I write these words

I write these words to bear witness to the primacy of resistance struggle in any situation of domination (even within family life); to the strength and power that emerges from sustained resistance and the profound conviction that these forces can be healing, can protect us from dehumanization and despair. Bell Hooks

For within livin structures

For within livin structures defined by profit, by linear power, by institutional dehumanization, our feelings were not meant to survive. Kept around as unavoidable adjuncts or pleasant pastimes, our feelings were expected to kneel to thought as women were expected to kneel to men. But women have survived. As poets. Audre Lorde

Unless one lives and

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

If you complain of

If you complain of people being shot down in the streets, of the absence of communication or social responsibility, of the rise of everyday violence which people have become accustomed to, and the dehumanization of feelings, then the ultimate development on an organized social level is the concentration camp… The concentration camp is the final … Read more