Robin Tunney Quotes

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.

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

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.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

Throughout this country's history there have of course been systematic efforts to create an official underclass.

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

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.

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 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.

Society is better off without certain people.

What people don't know about oppression is that the oppressor works much harder. You always grew up being told you were not smart enough or not fast enough, but we all lived from the time we were children to beat the system.

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.

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

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

Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded.

The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation.

It is a great shock at the age of five or six to find that in a world of Gary Coopers you are the Indian.

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

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

This awful concept of underclass is really horrifying. You're not lower class, you are excluded - outside.

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

The margins don't get erased by simply insisting that the powers-that-be erase them.