Maya Angelou

If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it.

American Poet

Michael Horse

The main problem with films is that everybody always thinks of us as a violent people. We are not. We are spiritual. And when you show someone without a sense of humor or families, which is the way you usually see Indians in movies, then they are without a spiritual base and become subhuman.

American Actor

Alan Furst

Poland is a wildly dramatic and tragic story. It's just unbelievable what went on with those people. How they survive, I don't really know. The Germans had a particular hatred for the Poles; they really considered them subhuman Slavs, and they were very brutal to them.

American Author

Vic Mensa

I don't love America; I love people and places in America. How could I truly love an entity that views me as subhuman, that wrote in its constitution for me to be considered three-fifths of a person?

American Musician

Albert Bandura

In the final forms of moral disengagement, wrongdoers treat adversaries as subhuman animalistic, demonic beings. Expunging any sense of shared humanity eliminates moral restraints.

Canadian Psychologist

Henry Louis Gates

The Western stereotype of Africa and its black citizens as devoid of reason and, therefore, subhuman was often shared by white master and black ex-slave alike.

American Critic

Armstrong Williams

Very simply, the culture of another people does not have to be accepted when it is subhuman!

American Journalist

Subhuman carries a strong negative and dehumanizing implication, often causing offense.

Negative Connotation

Often used in contexts discussing extreme neglect, cruelty, or conditions deemed unacceptable for humans.

Harsh Contexts

Used to describe actions that degrade someone's dignity or rights.

Debasing Treatment

Using 'subhuman' as a noun risks offending and should be avoided in polite or sensitive contexts.

Discriminatory Language

The term has been misused in history for oppression; awareness of its dark associations is important.

Historical Misuse

Can be metaphoric, often in fiction, to describe entities or beings with lesser abilities or status.

Metaphorical Sense

 and journalism and memoirs and realistic fiction and travel and literacy, which allows you to project yourself into the lives of other people that formerly you may have treated as subhuman, and also to realize the accidental contingency of your own station in life,