But on Kwajalein, the guards sought to deprive them of something that had sustained them even as all else had been lost: dignity. This self-respect and sense of self-worth, the innermost armament of the soul, lies at the heart of humanness; to be deprived of it is to be dehumanized, to be cleaved from, and cast below, mankind. Laura Hillenbrand
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While the prisoners on Kwajalein had ample opportunity to get back on their feet, they were still denied the dignity of their arms and the way they saw themselves. When we dehumanize someone we make them less than we are and we strip them of their identity; we make them a part of our world and not of ours. When we dehumanize someone, we make them less than human and this is wrong.

Source: Unbroken: A World War Ii Story Of Survival, Resilience, And Redemption

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