Jaime Harrison Quotes

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

If you are on the wrong side of society you can’t win.

A poor man is like a foreigner in his own country.

I usually play disenfranchised youth.

If too many people feel excluded from the system and cannot access its benefits, they will ultimately rebel against it.

We seem to be pariahs alike in the visible and the invisible world, with no foothold anywhere, though by every principle of government and religion we should have an equal place on this planet.

Face it, the system is rigged, and it's rigged against us.

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.

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

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

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

Inequality causes problems by creating fissures in societies, leaving those at the bottom feeling marginalized or disenfranchised.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

The Annual Shame

The people who are denied participation in the American Dream -- will wreck it.

You can see what happens when people don't feel they have a chance. You can see the ramifications of that.

We can't continue to sit on our hands and sit idly by as people are being brutalized, disenfranchised, and left out of the system.

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

We have never had a society that was truly just. Some groups have always benefited at the expense of others.

I can be lazy, don't get me wrong. But it's not laziness that's holding me back, it's the system where I don't fit in.

I am not OK with the system that allows certain people to fail or be chucked out. I don't accept that.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

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