Sentence examples for are not persons from inspiring English sources

Astyanax and Ascanius, as well as Medea's two children, are not persons.

The response from most sensible people is that foetuses are not persons, whatever they turn out to be.

Romeo and Juliet are not persons of extraordinary social rank or position, like Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth.

This is the same Supreme Court that ruled that the detainees at Guantanomo Bay are not "persons" under the constitution deserving basic protections.

In slightly different terms, the issue was whether the class of persons is coextensive with the class of human beings whether all and only human beings are persons, or whether instead there can be human beings who are not persons or persons who are not human beings (the latter category, according to some, includes some of the higher animals and hypothetical creatures such as intelligent Martians).

The serious problem is that many humans are not persons.

Native Americans were not persons.

Slaves, of course, were not persons.

You are not that person.

You are not this person's savior.

We are not the same person.