Quotes About Marginalized

Social media is something of a double-edged sword. At its best, social media offers unprecedented opportunities for marginalized people to speak and bring much needed attention to the issues they face. At its worst, social media also offers 'everyone' an unprecedented opportunity to share in collective outrage without reflection.

I am now using media as a tool to bring attention to marginalized people.

Christianity is at its best when it is peculiar, marginalized, suffering, and it is at its worst when it is popular, credible, triumphal, and powerful.

Still, I couldn't shake the fear that Putin's way of doing business had more force and momentum than I cared to admit, that in the world as it was, many of these hopeful activists might soon be marginalized or crushed by their own government—and there'd be very little I could do to protect them.

I want to remind people that the Nazis weren't able to take the Jews to the crematoriums immediately. The German people wouldn't have allowed for it. Instead, the Nazis had to change public opinion. They marginalized the Jewish people, disparaged them, and made them objects of contempt.

'The Story of Us with Morgan Freeman' is a reminder that people across the world are rebelling against norms and forging new paths for the most marginalized people in their own communities.

We still have an underclass in this country who are constantly ignored and vilified.

What is it with me? I seem to be an incorrigible black-listee.

i've become the High Priestess of Career Longevity in the Chapel of Social Change preaching from the Pulpit of Political Invisibility the Congregation of the Marginalized and Already Converted

In fiction, there happens to be a long history of creative engagement with marginality, with the very human components of society that others don't want to think about, from writers such as Dostoyevsky, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud to Genet and Sarrazin and right on up to Norman Mailer.

The lunatic fringe wags the underdog.

What better place to hide than among that part of society that no one else even wants to acknowledge.

I'm just interested in people on the edges. I feel an affinity for people who haven't had the best breaks in society. I'm always on their side. I find them more human, maybe. What I want to do more than anything is acknowledge their existence.

All over the world, children facing the challenges of poverty attend schools that aren't designed to meet their extra needs; across country lines, the lives of marginalized kids look far more similar than they do different.

I gravitate to the world's outcasts," he explained in another email. "Prostitutes, thieves, the handicapped, the enormously ugly or deformed … For some reason I have always been fascinated by these subcultures.

Until affirmative action is described and understood as one mechanism by which to make amends for historical wrongdoing against members of marginalized communities, it will fail to meaningfully address the inequality that exists as a direct result of federal policy.

When you think of the exponential speed and scale of expansion of social media or a service, you have to believe that it is equally possible to rapidly transform the lives of those who have long stood on the margins of hope.

The people everyone complains about and no one wants to help.

Escucha las voces de los pequeños y los débiles, de las mujeres que se entregaron en vano, de las prostitutas riéndose de sus miserias, el rencor tenebroso de quienes están siempre enfermos. A los solitarios, ante quienes jamás se posó una sonrisa. Escucha a los niños que sollozan y se lamentan. Y los gritos impotentes de las que fueron seducidas en secreto.

Nobody cares about the guys who lose.

They are les misérables - the outcasts, the underdogs. And who is to blame? Is it not the most fallen who have most need of charity?

persona non grata.

The big men are all deaf; they don't want to hear the little squeaking as they walk across the street on cleated boots.

Theology that is not in touch with [the marginalized's] life experience cannot be living theology.