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• As gay young people, we are marginalized. As young people who are HIV-positive and have AIDS, we are totally written off.

  Pedro Zamora

  Gay, People, Hiv

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• Christianity has been successfully attacked and marginalized… because those who professed belief were unable to defend the faith from attack, even though its attackers’ arguments were deeply flawed.

  William Wilberforce

  Belief, Argument, Christianity

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• Virtually all of Africa's civil wars were started by politically marginalized or excluded groups.

  George Ayittey

  War, Groups, Excluded

  "Why Western-style democracy is not suitable for Africa" by George Ayittey, www.cnn.com. August 20, 2010.

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• As long as people are marginalized and distracted [they] have no way to organize or articulate their sentiments, or even know that others have these sentiments. People assume that they are the only people with a crazy idea in their heads. They never hear it from anywhere else. Nobody's supposed to think that. ... Since there's no way to get together with other people who share or reinforce that view and help you articulate it, you feel like an oddity, an oddball. So you just stay on the side and you don't pay any attention to what's going on. You look at something else, like the Superbowl.

  Noam Chomsky

  Crazy, Thinking, Oddities

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• If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge him? The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains this very well. It says they should not be marginalized because of this (orientation) but that they must be integrated into society. The problem is not having this orientation. We must be brothers.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Gay, Judging

  “Pope Francis on homosexuality: Who am I to judge gay people?” by Ben Rossington, www.mirror.co.uk. July 29, 2013.

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• 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

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• The international community cannot accept that whole communities are marginalized because of the color of their skin. People of African descent are among those most affected by racism. Too often, they face denial of basic rights such as access to quality health services and education. Such fundamental wrongs have a long and terrible history.

  Ban Ki-moon

  Rights, Race, Color

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• 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.

  Shane Claiborne

  Powerful, Suffering, Peculiar

  Shane Claiborne, Chris Haw (2009). “Jesus for President”, p.165, Harper Collins

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• Literary fiction and poetry are real marginalized right now. There's a fallacy that some of my friends sometimes fall into, the ol' "The audience is stupid. The audience only wants to go this deep. Poor us, we're marginalized because of TV, the great hypnotic blah, blah." You can sit around and have these pity parties for yourself. Of course this is bullshit. If an art form is marginalized it's because it's not speaking to people. One possible reason is that the people it's speaking to have become too stupid to appreciate it. That seems a little easy to me.

  David Foster Wallace

  Art, Stupid, Real

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• Collectively, we activists are essential to advancing U.S. policy to help empower marginalized people to lift themselves and their communities out of poverty for good.

  Michael Franti

  People, Empowering, Community

  "Time for Passion and Strategy on Climate Change" by Michael Franti, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 26, 2009.

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

  Anthony Braxton

  Jazz, Concerned, Contemporary

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• Spiritually, we have marginalized the Bible. We've trivialized marriage, and we've neutralized the church. America today is in great turmoil. It feels like the soul of our nation has been taken from us.

  David Jeremiah

  Taken, America, Soul

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• My films are motivated by a keen interest in highlighting issues that affect marginalized populations who are caught in difficult circumstances.

  Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

  Issues, Population, Film

  "Conversation With Oscar-Winner Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy". Interview with Ellie Knaus, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 6, 2012.

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• The frustration of being marginalized often gets misdirected at the most visible members of one's own community, because they are more accessible than the real agents of marginalization.

  Melissa Febos

  Real, Frustration, Community

  "Carnal Knowledge". Interview with Marie-Helene Westgate, www.guernicamag.com. February 15, 2013.

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• Hanks is a good man, and he produced the "John Adams" series as well. He does good work. But I'm more worried about a Tom Hanks when we're at war against radical Islam than I am against a caricature like Sean Penn. He's a completely marginalized soul.

  Bill O'Reilly

  War, Men, Soul

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• The thing which Reagan did, which was great, was he won the people. He marginalized the media. And that's what you need, an intellectual agility.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Media, People, Intellectual

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Men's stories are seen as universal, women's as particular. What women are up against is the battle to not be marginalized.

  Cheryl Strayed

  Men, Battle, Stories

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• For girls and women, storytelling has a double and triple importance. Because the stories of our lives have been marginalized and ignored by history, and often dismissed and treated as 'gossip' within our own cultures and families, female human beings are more likely to be discouraged from telling our stories and from listening to each other with seriousness.

  Gloria Steinem

  Girl, Gossip, History

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• I've decided to do what I want to do in life and follow my own path as an artist, so I've decided not to participate in any sort of nostalgia in which I'm marginalized as a pop icon of yesteryear.

  Thomas F. Wilson

  Artist, Icons, Yesteryear

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But he was one of a kind. He arrived in our lives as an alien - but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit. He made us laugh. He made us cry. He gave his immeasurable talent freely and generously to those who needed it most - from our troops stationed abroad to the marginalized on our own streets. The Obama family offers our condolences to Robin’s family, his friends, and everyone who found their voice and their verse thanks to Robin Williams.

  Barack Obama

  Condolences, Voice, Doctors

  Statement by the President on the Passing of Robin Williams, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. August 11, 2014.

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• I believe a good writer can write a good book with any sort of character, in any sort of setting, but I prefer to write about the outsider. It might just be because I've been one (or perceived myself to be one) for so much of my life. But the simple fact of being marginalized immediately brings conflict to a story before the narrative even begins, and that's gold for a writer because it means that your character already has depth before events begin to unfold.

  Charles de Lint

  Believe, Book, Writing

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• As a society, I think older women are marginalized, but I think that has changed so much in the last twenty years.

  Melinda McGraw

  Thinking, Years, Twenties

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.

  David Sanborn

  Media, Instrumental Music, Outlets

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• Let's continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized.

  Hillary Clinton

  Vulnerable, Left, Left Out

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• People experience all kinds of prejudice because of all different parts of themselves. And that doesn't make one part more important than the other. We live in a society that does not openly accept every kind of human being. And so the result is when you are yourself and someone who's marginalized, it becomes a revolutionary act - just being comfortable in your own body and being comfortable speaking, sharing your ideas. It's really amazing and also, like, kind of sad.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Ideas, People, Important

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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