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If a group of people feels that it has been humiliated and that its honour has been trampled underfoot, it will want to express its identity and this expression of an identity will take different shapes and forms.

— Abdolkarim Soroush

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East and many other regions.

— Serge Schmemann

I can't understand why people so readily put themselves up to be humiliated.

— Penelope Wilton

All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.

— Corazon Aquino

An identity would seem to be arrived at by the way in which the person faces and uses his experience.

— James Baldwin

We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation.

— Zygmunt Bauman

There's no such thing as identity: it's something we have to believe in to make life more tolerable.

— Sebastian Faulks

I love to see people just being regal in their own skin; it's just when they know who they are.

— Ava DuVernay

Humiliation is the beginning of sanctification.

— John Donne

✗Opposing Perspectives

These humiliations are the essence of the game.

— Alistair Cooke

There's absolutely no way you can feel the freedom to embarrass and humiliate yourself unless you have finally recognized that your identity is in someone other than yourself.

— Tullian Tchividjian