She was adamant that any organization that labelled one group of people as evil would eventually do the same to others. That to treat any one person as less than human was to cheapen the very substance of humanity.

Samantha Shannon
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The quote above comes from a speech that Victor Hugo gave at the Sorbonne in Paris. In his speech, he spoke about how it is wrong to hate any one group of people. He believed that people should be judged as individuals and not as a part of a group. Hugo believed that hate was a form of ignorance because it led to perceptions of other people as less-than-human. It was this kind of thinking that led to the Holocaust which has become a historical event known for its brutality.

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