Discrimination

Fatimah S. 11.23.25

A human is a human, regardless of their race, gender, religion, status and background.

For centuries, there have been arguments relating to discrimination between two ordinary humans. Two humans. The same species, yet one will always be better than the other.

Was it always like this? When did the discrimination start?

The answer lies in the root of comparison, one of the seven deadly sins: pride. 

Pride crawls into the hearts of people, something rotten, slowly corrupting their hearts until they go blind. 

It starts small. One feels they have something more: fairer skin, better grades, a wealthier family. They won’t notice it at first; that’s where the rot spreads.

The next time they see someone, the comparison begins, a silent whisper in their mind. As time passes, that whisper controls them. Pride swallows them whole, leaving them as an empty shell with no form of empathy whatsoever. 

We see this everywhere, on the streets, in schools, offices, our homes, even hospitals and other emergency service areas. One man will always be preferred over the other; there isn’t justice, there isn’t equality.

Discrimination grows on the same tree as pride. It takes many shapes: race, religion, gender, social class, or physical ability, but its roots remain the same. It convinces people that worth can be measured, that humanity can be divided into ranks. The result is a quiet war that never ends: one fought in offices, classrooms, and even in homes. The oppressed learn silence; the privileged learn ignorance. 

But what is lost at the cost of it all? Humanity.

But the salt in the wound is how ignorant our society is, easily masking something that deserves to be spoken up about. We speak of equality in speeches and laws, yet prejudice seeps through everyday actions. Modern times may have changed our clothes and language, but not our hearts. 

The truth is simple: discrimination never truly vanished, it only concealed itself.

Humanity’s greatest test lies not in invention or power, but in compassion. The true strength of a society is not seen in how advanced it becomes, but in how it treats its most ordinary people. 

When humans begin to see worth through wealth, lineage, or skin, they carve invisible cages around themselves, trapped by their own blindness. Pride makes them forget that beneath every name, every title, every accent, there beats the same fragile heart. No human was born to stand above another, and no soul was created to be trampled beneath one’s feet. 

Until that is understood, equality will remain an illusion, a repeated but unfulfilled promise.

If humanity ever wishes to rise beyond the chains of its own arrogance, it must return to the simplest truth: we are all made of the same dust, destined to the same earth. Compassion, not comparison, is what elevates mankind. 

Discrimination does not just divide people; it corrupts the essence of what it means to be a human. As long as pride rules, empathy will remain silent, and the world will continue to rot in its own indifference. But the moment one heart dares to see another without labels or boundaries, that is when change begins. 

That is when humanity, for the first time, will remember itself once more.