Genesis P-Orridge Quotes

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 is alive and soaring.

Segregation is that which is forced upon an inferior by a superior. Separation is done voluntarily by two equals.

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

The Armenians [have] been decieved and ... their rights have not been recognized.

I value what I learned from being cast in the margins and what that felt like.

Discrimination will impair democracy.

What words can express her [the white woman’s] humiliation when, at the close of this long conflict, the government which she had served so faithfully held her unworthy of a voice in its councils, while it recognized as the political superiors of all the noble women of the nation the negro men just emerged from slavery, and not only totally illiterate, but also densely ignorant of every public question.

Society is better off without certain people.

I see myself in all the people in the world who are suffering and who are very badly treated and who are often made to feel that they have no place on this Earth.

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

When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

When you use the term minority or minorities in reference to people, you're telling them that they're less than somebody else.

Every invalid is a prisoner.

Twenty years on, the books are still fun to write and I've still got lots of stories I want to tell, mainly about social injustice and people chewed up by the system.

I'm tired of being treated like a second-class citizen.

I usually play disenfranchised youth.

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

And the whole thing is that you're treated like a step-child. Here it was down here, everything in the black, because they were stealing, basically. Stealing from us old country boys down here.

My father is the jailhouse. My father is your system... I am only what you made me. I am only a reflection of you.

It's easier to blame the person with less power.

Lists are anti-democratic, discriminatory, elitist, and sometimes the print is too small.

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