Jagmeet Singh Quotes

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

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

I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.

I was always different from people. Especially being from Kentucky, I always got made fun of.

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.

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.

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people.

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've never really fit in anywhere.

I'm an underdog person, so I align myself with those who seem to be not considered valuable in polite society.

Everything about being a teenager and not feeling like you fit in is just magnified by being a mutant!

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.

The biggest abuses in society happen when people are not able to communicate and not able to connect.

I do feel like I'm not entirely an insider.

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

We remain the saddest little district of the world, the most miserable people of the world, losing our own persona and not being able to take on anyone else's, torn away and not accepted, alien to all and everyone, including those with whom we are most closely related, but who will not recognize us as their kin. We live on a divide between worlds, at the border between nations, always at a fault to someone and first to be struck. Waves of history strike us as a sea cliff.

The Muslim community here does feel under siege.

I felt like, 'How do I fit in?' But then I never fit in. The whole time, I've never fit in.

It's very hard to live in an environment where you're reminded, constantly told that your existence just happens to be here... That you are not meant to be here.

My parents - they tried to become American, they tried to become British, they tried to become Scandinavian - nobody wanted them, anywhere.

The most dangerous creation of any society is the man who has nothing to lose.

My motivation is, in part, a bit of angst that comes from feeling like I don't belong, that our generation doesn't belong.

This is the positive way of seeing the modern Jewish dilemma: I am from everywhere. The negative way is no matter where you go, you find out that you're a victim, that you're unwanted and don't belong.