Every human rights violation begins long before a prison cell, a battlefield, or a courtroom. It begins with an idea—the belief that some people are inherently more valuable than others.

The illusion of superiority has shaped some of history’s darkest chapters. Whether based on ethnicity, religion, nationality, language, race, or political ideology, it transforms human differences into justifications for discrimination. Once a society accepts that one group deserves more rights than another, injustice becomes easier to normalize.

This mindset rarely appears overnight. It is reinforced through........

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