Top 90 Marginalized Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Marginalized Quotes from famous people such as Kerry Kennedy, Patrisse Cullors, Anthony Braxton, Natasha Rothwell, Tarana Burke, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

It's important to reach out to people who are marginali

It’s important to reach out to people who are marginalized.
Kerry Kennedy
‘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.
Patrisse Cullors
My work has been marginalized as far as the jazz-business complex is concerned, or the contemporary-music complex.
Anthony Braxton
I’m drawn to subversive material and material that speaks to communities and people who tend to be marginalized, and telling those stories in ways that subvert expectations. That’s always been fun for me to play and always been fun for me to write.
Natasha Rothwell
I’m driven by the gaps, the things that are missing, the areas where marginalized people exist – and where the least resources are available for them.
Tarana Burke
Honestly, what Jesus was about was laying his life down for the marginalized who didn’t have it all together.
Lecrae
Portadown was the most marginalized of all the Nationalist communities in the North. Suddenly we were living in a town where, if you were Catholic, you literally couldn’t walk up the street without getting into some kind of conflict.
Adrian Dunbar
I knew Buckley – he was a friend of mine – and Steve Bannon is no William F. Buckley. Buckley marginalized the kooks. Bannon empowered them.
Charlie Sykes
We, as communities that are marginalized, need to open up our minds and realize that we should be asking and advocating for more of everyone. Let’s get more gay black men; let’s get more trans women.
Karamo Brown
We need to look marginalized people in our community in the eye and listen to their stories of struggle, heartache and impossibility.
Stephanie Land
Not all representation is good representation. I would argue a lot of the marginalized representation in TV and media is off, because a lot of the gatekeepers are white straight cis people who mean well and they think meaning well is enough, and it’s not.
Patti Harrison
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
I sort of feel like if you’re slightly marginalized, you’re hungrier, and you can take more risks and be more playful.
Marilyn Minter
I began using the #smallacts hashtag on Twitter shortly after the 2016 election as a way to resist. To resist the intolerance growing in our nation, to resist an upcoming administration that I believe threatens to pull us backward and strip rights from those already marginalized.
Celeste Ng
In ‘When They Call You a Terrorist,’ I reflect on my time growing up in Van Nuys, California, surrounded by my devoted family and supportive friends, weaving our experiences into the larger picture of how predominantly marginalized neighborhoods are under constant systemic attack.
Patrisse Cullors
Whether you look at ‘Glee’ and its normalization of gay identity or you look at the work of Martin Scorsese and the Italian-American community, American culture is able to take these stories, which are seen as marginalized, and just turn them into American stories. And you don’t think twice about it.
Riz Ahmed
All around the world, we send our top talent into finance, technology, medicine and law – everywhere but towards expanding opportunity for our most marginalized children.
Wendy Kopp
There’s a lot of talk now about the PC police, and ‘why is everything bad?’ It isn’t. What it is, is that marginalized and oppressed people who have never had a soapbox, who have never been given a microphone, suddenly have a microphone.
Lexi Alexander
You must make sure that the majority of the people are not marginalized.
Najib Razak
I think it is fundamental to understand that the ethics of politics indicate that you should concentrate your efforts on those marginalized people who live in poverty with few opportunities to develop individually.
Enrique Pena Nieto
Marginalized Americans should not be defined by the verbal and physical violence that looms over our heads. We have a right to exist, to live as we choose and to be free to pursue our happiness without the fear of others demonizing us or harming us just because of who we are.
Lucy McBath
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
Far too many LGBTQ individuals are the victims of violence and hatred, and we must all fight together to ensure that no one is erased or marginalized because of how they identify or who they love.
London Breed
Our goal of poverty eradication and of inclusive growth that embraces the disadvantaged and marginalized sections of society can be achieved when our actions are guided by a social conscience and are not devoid of sensitivity.
Pratibha Patil
Trump’s appointed extremist judges to the federal bench, including U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, whose decisions demonstrate a judicial philosophy far more concerned with the rights of corporations than marginalized Americans.
Sarah McBride
While television can help normalize the lives of marginalized people, it also can exploit their hardships and reinforce stereotypes, reducing their lives to mere entertainment.
Zoey Tur
Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.
Nicholas Kristof
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
We’ve seen historically how marginalized communities or historically marginalized communities particularly suffer from tech companies unchecked data collection and use.
Raphael Warnock
Skills that are employable or marketable, education, having a stake or meaningful role in society, not being marginalized – all of those things are very important.
Carl Hart
Microwork gives marginalized people a chance to earn a living by playing a vital role in the business processes of big companies. In parallel, the organization assists local entrepreneurs in running microwork centers, helping to grow a new pool of business talent across the developing world.
Leila Janah
The work that I engage with, whether it's self-generate

The work that I engage with, whether it’s self-generated or collaborative, is uplifting and supporting historically marginalized and disenfranchised people, because when I uplift up those groups, I’m uplifting myself and supporting myself – it works out in that way.
Asia Kate Dillon
In any awards ceremony, if you’re a finicky person like myself, you can pick a multitude of things to nag about. I get frustrated with the comedy category because it feels like it gets sidelined a lot of the time for all kinds of things – not sidelined, marginalized.
Thomas Middleditch
I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I’m wrong, but it’s always the hope.
Harmony Korine
Let’s continue to stand up for those who are vulnerable to being left out or marginalized.
Hillary Clinton
The death penalty is an inhumane punishment that disproportionately violates the human rights of Black, brown, indigenous, and other marginalized people.
Cori Bush
Metal has always been somewhat marginalized, and I love to prove the perception and stereotypes that go with it wrong.
Eddie Trunk
I just see that there’s a lot that I can do as far as sparking change and helping amplify the voices of marginalized people.
Aquaria
Congress has the authority to authorize spending and investment to historically neglected and marginalized communities.
Jamaal Bowman
The reason you write something that is exciting and visceral is to force people to hear what you have to say, especially if you’re in any kind of marginalized community where people don’t want to listen. You have to come up with tricks to make them listen.
Daveed Diggs
My mother has always rooted for the underdog, so to speak. She has always been in support of uplifting historically marginalized and historically disenfranchised people.
Asia Kate Dillon
Our societies have experienced the magic that occurs when pluralism flourishes and the marginalized assume their proper powers. But loss stalks those victories, as millions revolt against change and supremacies resurface.
Anand Giridharadas
You have to understand when you’re organizing with women of color, you can’t use words like ‘marginalized’ and ‘second-class citizen’ loosely.
Linda Sarsour
There are caste systems in American cities: Many are marginalized to the edges of urban centers due to real estate costs; price tags seem to lurk around human encounters; there’s a cult of overwork in the middle class; workers at your local manicurist, your local fast casual restaurant, are exploited.
Alissa Quart
The main problem with cultural appropriation comes from dominant groups ‘borrowing’ from marginalized groups who face oppression or have been stigmatized for their cultural practices throughout history.
Franchesca Ramsey
I am convening the African Leaders Forum on Disability in partnership with Special Olympics so that a marginalized population long unrecognized does not remain in the shadows. I consider this a critical, moral and practical challenge.
Joyce Banda
In American politics, the deepest rivalry is between the rational world and the right wing of the GOP, who are increasingly marginalized in their view that America cannot take on the big challenges.
Tom Steyer
I deeply appreciate the CSA and its initiatives to build equity in the industry by giving a platform to marginalized artists and listening to our concerns, and collaborating with us for impactful solutions.
Brian Michael Smith