Marginalized Quotes - Page 2

• The key to me, in religion, is just to treat it like it doesn't really matter. We have a Pope, we don't really believe him, we don't really listen to what he says, we don't really take him seriously. That's what has to happen with religion. It has to be marginalized and in the Islamic world, it's not marginalized, it's taken literally.

  Bill Maher

  Taken, Islamic, Believe

  "Bill Maher Gets Ridiculous with Religulous". Interview with Brian Gallagher, movieweb.com. February 16, 2009.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We must overcome...all forms of racism. The problem of intolerance should be dealt with as a whole: every time a minority is persecuted and marginalized...the good of the whole society is in danger.

  Pope Francis

  Racism, Overcoming, Minorities

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

  68 Copy quote

  Show source

• When social movements engage in legal reform, they often mobilize images of people from their constituent population who most match national norms about what "deserving citizens" are like, and use those people as spokespeople and as lead plaintiffs in legal cases. This strategy requires that people who are experiencing intersectional harm - who are vulnerable through multiple vectors of demonization and marginalization - be further marginalized and disappeared by the advocacy.

  Dean Spade

  People, Reform, Population

  4 Copy quote

• One of the things that always comes up in my writing is the search for freedom, especially in women. I always write about women who are marginalized, who have no means or resources and somehow manage to get out of those situations with incredible strength - and that is more important than anything.

  Isabel Allende

  Mean, Writing, Important

  "The WD Interview: Isabel Allende". Interview with Jordan E. Rosenfeld, www.writersdigest.com. August 27, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong.

  Eddie Trunk

  Perception, Stereotype, Prove

  4 Copy quote

• When these resources are degraded or polluted, then there are fewer of them for the rest of us, and then we start competing for them and eventually as we compete, there are those of us, who have the capacity, who have the ability to be the controllers, to decide who accesses them, how much they access, and eventually there is a conflict. Those who feel marginalized, those who feel excluded, eventually react in an effort to get their own justice, and we have conflict.

  Wangari Maathai

  Justice, Effort, Conflict

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• I by no means intend to simplify the challenges women face in any culture. Women are marginalized in all cultures in my opinion, some in more extreme ways than others.

  Zainab Salbi

  Mean, Challenges, Culture

  "Women Lean in Worldwide" by Zainab Salbi, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 1, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I never wanted Ford to be a place, like the tobacco industry, where our employees were not proud of coming to work for us. I felt there was a danger of that, should we be marginalized as a major polluter.

  Bill Ford

  Tobacco Industry, Proud, Danger

  7 Copy quote

• The privilege of privilege is that the terms of privilege are rendered invisible. It is a luxury not to have to think about race, or class, or gender. Only those marginalized by some category understand how powerful that category is when deployed against them.

  Michael Kimmel

  Powerful, Thinking, Race

  38 Copy quote

• I think Michael Moore is an amazing man - an amazing, brave man. And I think people are probably going to start saying, 'Don't associate with Cindy Sheehan.' People who speak truth to power somehow are marginalized in this country.

  Cindy Sheehan

  Country, Men, Thinking

  4 Copy quote

• I think wherever we are, we can create an atmosphere of openness and trust, where women and those who feel marginalized feel safe to speak the truth of their lives.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Thinking, Atmosphere, Safe

  Source: therumpus.net

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I believe a lot in the subject of the power our own bodies have as marginalized beings to be able to change the sense of things.

  Bocafloja

  Believe, Body, Able

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a centrist. There is a lot going on socially that I don't like, but I feel that in a democracy you work from the center, not because I like the center - I'm a marginalized person politically - but because the center is where things get done.

  Richard Grossman

  Democracy, Done, Feels

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Do you and I believe him (Christ) enough to obey him and to follow him wherever he leads, even when the crowds in our culture - and maybe in our churches - turn the other way?...For the sake of an increasingly marginalized and relatively ineffective church in our culture, I want to risk it all. For the sake of my life, my family, and the people who surround me, I want to risk it all.

  David Platt

  Believe, People, Risk

  31 Copy quote

• The Beatitudes, far from being a new set of virtues that further divide the religious haves and have nots, are words of hope and healing to those who have been marginalized.

  James Bryan Smith

  Religious, Healing, Virtue

  James Bryan Smith (2010). “The Good and Beautiful Life: Putting on the Character of Christ”, p.56, InterVarsity Press

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• If in fact the conservation and complexification of novelty is what the universe is striving for, then suddenly our own human enterprise, previously marginalized, takes on an immense new importance.

  Terence McKenna

  Novelty, Facts, Conservation

  4 Copy quote

• History is replete with examples of tech firms that were marginalized by new companies and technologies.

  Barry Ritholtz

  Technology, Example, Firm

  4 Copy quote

• Girls come to the gang for very different reasons than boys. For boys in marginalized communities, they have a gender problem, and they solve it often through gang membership. They find an ability to do masculinity in a way that reasserts their importance in a society that mostly ignores them. For girls, they're coming out of more damaged backgrounds. Their families are often the reason they get propelled into gang membership.

  Meda Chesney-Lind

  Girl, Boys, Community

  "Girls and Gangs". Interview with Lisa Wong Macabasco, www.motherjones.com. December 19, 2005.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My parents were civil rights activists, and my mother was active in the feminist movement. Issues concerning marginalized people and especially women of color were what they cared about most in the world.

  Anna Holmes

  Mother, Issues, Rights

  "How Jezebel Smashes the Patriarchy, Click by Click". Interview with Tasneem Raja, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Religion is just an alternate way of reading reality - you read material reality, and then you add on an extra layer of religiosity that deepens that understanding of reality. Some countries have lost that capacity, or dismissed it or marginalized it.

  Yann Martel

  Country, Reading, Reality

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Throughout our world the cry of the poor so often goes unheard. The prophets harangued Israel and Judah unceasingly about the powerless and marginalized, the overlooked widows, orphans, and "sojourners in our midst," who are still with us today as single mothers, hungry children, and helpless immigrants, wraiths invisible in our prosperous societies.

  Thomas Cahill

  Mother, Children, Our World

  Thomas Cahill (2010). “The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone Thinks and Feels”, p.252, Anchor

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There's a wider agenda that speaks to what the Democratic Party has historically stood for, which are economic rights for those who are struggling in the middle class, concern for the poor, for economic justice for those who are marginalized in our society.

  Mike McCurry

  Party, Struggle, Class

  6 Copy quote

• Listen, here's reality. It is completely unfair and absolutely necessary that people who have been oppressed and marginalized have to lead everybody. That is MLK, that is Dolores Huerta, that is Fannie Lou Hamer, that is Ella Jo Baker, that is Nelson Mandela. You walk down the line.

  Van Jones

  Reality, People, Lines

  Source: pen.org

  26 Copy quote

  Show source

• It seems that we have been born only to consume and to consume, and when we can no longer consume, we have a feeling of frustration, and we suffer from poverty, and we are auto-marginalized.

  Jose Mujica

  Powerful, Humble, Frustration

  13 Copy quote

• My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.

  Anthony Braxton

  Jazz, Concerned, Contemporary

  6 Copy quote