We aren't human.""Yes. We. Are." His voice turns fierce. "I don't give a shit what the something-somethingth council of big important farts decreed, or how the geomests classify things, or any of that. That we're not human is just the lie they tell themselves so they don't have to feel bad about how they treat us.
N.K. Jemisin, The Fifth Season
alienation, caste, caste-system, classification, humanity, labeling, labels, oppression, outcast, outcasts, taxonomy