Joe Morton Quotes

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

Othering people is something that humans have done for ever.

With any sort of minority, issues of ostracization or misrepresentation are clearly rampant. It's just so deeply rooted in our culture, and there are so many levels that it trickles down from.

Society is better off without certain people.

I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.

Why are some people bullied? Because they are different. How? It doesn't matter.

People who don't fit the mold are treated differently than those who do.

I usually play disenfranchised youth.

Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.

To a considerable degree, all minority groups suffer from the same state of marginality with its haunting consequences of insecurity, conflict, and irritation.

Labels are actually not to make us understand things better: they are actually to ostracise and discriminate that what does not belong to the majority.

The fundamental thing that makes the 'X-Men' different from every other series out there is it's all about prejudice. It's about a group of young people trying to make a place in a society that doesn't want them.

People who have no stake in society are the least likely to have respect for it.

The minorities have been confined to the city by a moat of bigotry.

I think we're living in a world where society is very difficult.

The rich stick together; the poor and the marginalised are thrown together.

If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.

I'm the result of upbringing, class, race, gender, social prejudices, and economics. So I'm a victim again. A result.

It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'

It's not even race; it's a certain type of person that gets 'Pootie Tang.'

It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.

No corner of the world is free from group scorn.

The feeling of being an underdog, not belonging, is very much me. You harbour a little feeling of resentment towards the 'upper dog'.

Being someone with Latin roots, so many doors are constantly closed for you because people put you in a category, and the thing I've always wanted to avoid is categorisation.