Carlene Carter Quotes

Every invalid is a prisoner.

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

No corner of the world is free from group scorn.

Being an outsider means not being heard, not having a voice. It means being treated as a second-class citizen, being diminished in the eyes of others. We have all felt this way at one time or another, but some feel it more consistently. Unfortunately, our schools often do not embrace the talents of many of their occupants.

Kids hate anyone who is different.

If you try to smooth out society with a hot iron, you're liable to drive out all talent.

I swear to the Lord I still can't see Why Democracy means Everybody but me.

It never occurred to me that some people were seen as wrong or even different.

Sometimes, the hate that I endure is not necessarily about me but about the space I'm in.

I was taunted because I was different.

I know what it's like to think the system has left you behind.

Sweden is a great country. What is not so great is that we have a society that, in a way, says it's great if you don't look right, if you don't look left, if you just look straight forward.

Society is better off without certain people.

Our family were outsiders, and I've always had a sense of the outsider, the underdog, and a strong sense of justice towards people who are excluded.

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

If I feel any marginalisation, it's because the things that concern me aren't so important to other people.

Persecution produced its natural effect on them. It found them a sect; it made them a faction.

I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.

If you're gay and you can't hold hands, or you're black and you can't catch a taxi, or you're a woman and you can't go into the park, you are aware there's a menace. That's costly on a psychic level. The world should be striving to make all its members secure.

I usually play disenfranchised youth.

I lived near Santa Cruz for ten years, and the whole time, it bothered me what an exclusionary definition of 'inclusion' was in force. Social censure was applied to those who expressed unpopular or uncomfortable ideas.

Just because we don't recognise someone from an area of our own lives, somehow it has become easy to simply ignore them and walk away.

I never learned hate at home, or shame. I had to go to school for that.

Those people who shun us just because of the label we're on, or the fact that we've got a video out there that's getting us somewhere, are only limiting themselves, because they aren't keeping an open mind.

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