The author recognizes the power of the persecuting tribe referring to members of hers consistently as "snakes" or "roaches". This dehumanizing language, she realizes, seeps into the subconscious and makes it easier to forget that fellow humans were created in God's image.
Immaculée Ilibagiza, Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
image-of-god, language, words