Inhumane Treatment Quotes

“Traumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community. Those who have survived learn that their sense of self, of worth, of humanity, depends upon a feeling of connection with others. The solidarity of a group provides the strongest protection against terror and despair, and the strongest antidote to traumatic experience. Trauma isolates; the group re-creates a sense of belonging. Trauma shames and stigmatizes; the group bears witness and affirms. Trauma degrades the victim; the group exalts her. Trauma dehumanizes the victim; the group restores her humanity.
Repeatedly in the testimony of survivors there comes a moment when a sense of connection is restored by another person’s unaffected display of generosity. Something in herself that the victim believes to be irretrievably destroyed---faith, decency, courage---is reawakened by an example of common altruism. Mirrored in the actions of others, the survivor recognizes and reclaims a lost part of herself. At that moment, the survivor begins to rejoin the human commonality...”
― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror

“Their tears should be they caused while playing and not been abused.”
― Zara Vote

“It is inhuman to humanize a dog; you might raise a child in a cage.”
― Joey Lawsin, Originemology

“An Inhuman, In Human.”
― Syed Sharukh

“give me night
give me darkness
its better not to see the light for it fools me
making me think I am alive”
― Loraine Masiya Mponela

“Trauma tried to tell me that I was not human and that I should be excluded from humanity.”
― Carolyn Spring