Bijou Phillips Quotes

Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.

Whatever insults human dignity, such as subhuman living conditions, arbitrary imprisonment, deportation, slavery, prostitution, the selling of women and children; as well as disgraceful working conditions, where men are treated as mere tools for profit, rather than as free and responsible persons; all these things and others of their like are infamies indeed.

I'm sick to death of the way the Big Two treat people.

I do not like the way oppressed Filipinos are being treated now. They are oppressed and have no one to turn to.

I think that the dehumanization of another person can happen in the matter of an instant.

To support policies that dehumanise others is to dehumanise yourself.

Denying any person their humanity is a game we should all stop playing.

Objectification, whatever its form, is not something anyone should have to 'just deal with.'

There are countries where a man is worth nothing; there are others where he is worth less than nothing.

I cannot abide anyone treating another human being like a piece of dirt, whatever the context.

After my first 'Sports Illustrated' cover, I felt terrible about myself for a solid month. People deal with models like they are children. They think they can pull one over on you. I'm not a toy; I'm a human. I'm not here to be used.

I felt devalued and disrespected. The energy behind it felt disingenuous and motivated by corporate profit.

The instant people specialize, it's in their interest to dehumanize the people their specialized function operates upon.

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.

We were not treated by our own government as proper human beings and consequently, some outsiders did not regard us as the same kind of humans as themselves.

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.

From the very depth of my being, I challenge the right of any man or any group of men, in business or in government, to tell a fellow human being that he or she is expendable.

Victorian values meant brutalizing people who were often poor.

When humanness is lost the radical difference between the bodies in the pit and people walking on the street is lost.

So what we're talking about here is human rights. The right to live like a human. The right to live, period. And what we're facing in Africa is an unprecedented threat to human dignity and equality.

Lands of great discoveries are also lands of great injustices.

When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.

The Danes kept the English in a very degraded position, and often did them dishonor. If 100 English met one Dane, evil arose if they did not bow themselves to him; and if they came upon a bridge, they were required to wait; it was a crime if they moved before the Dane passed. In passing, every one inclined himself; whoever did not, if he was taken was shamelessly beaten. In such vileness were the English, so did the Danes vilify them.