Sentence examples for lesser human from inspiring English sources

Throughout history political strategies have divided humanity into the fully human, the lesser human and the inhuman; for the Greeks the barbarians, for the Christians the heathen, for the nationalists the foreigners, for the colonialists the uncivilised.

Too often people's basic human rights were abused and they were treated like lesser human beings.

A lesser human being would have skewered these monsters in his writings, but Sebastian is of an altogether higher order.

They treat us like lesser human beings and blame us for the way we are forced to live.

Blacks were long considered lesser human beings until a public outcry prompted a 1978 reform that allowed them to become priests.

Labour's shadow foreign secretary, Douglas Alexander, said this was "misguided" and wrong on Thursday, but Clegg's position was backed by former Liberal leader David Steel, who also said Israel's government was "treating Palestinians as lesser human beings in exactly the same way the South African apartheid government treated the majority of its citizens".

I want these lesser humans gone".

It was the consequence of lesser humans realising that they have nobody but themselves to rely on to escape their hopeless lives and subhuman working and living conditions.

Their relationship – passionate but knowing, and somehow above the concerns of lesser humans – has echoes of Rhett and Scarlett (see below), and is bracketed by a haunting fragment of historical truth.

They're smarter than they let on, and they like to mess with us lesser humans.

When such theories have allowed 'male' to stand in for 'human' whether by defining the human in terms of characteristics associated specifically with men, or constructing the male as the paradigm of the species, or by simply conflating the two linguistically by use of the male generic they have necessarily rendered women as lesser humans.