Jim Yong Kim Quotes

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.

Keeping people on the margins of cultural, social and political life constitutes in many nations one of the most glaring injustices of our time.

I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart, I am the Negro bearing slaver's scars, I am the Red man driven from the land, I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek— And finding only the same ole stupid plan Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.

Public housing officials are free to discriminate against you on the basis of criminal records, including arrest records. And so, you know, what you find is that even for these extremely minor offenses, people find themselves trapped in a permanent second-class status and struggling to survive.

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.

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

Discrimination is alive and soaring.

I have no interest in romanticizing poor black people, having been one of them myself in our beloved hometown of Detroit.

I mean, the unfair treatment of women and black people and Indians and other groups, that's real. Mistreatment of other people because 'I'm better than you are' is such a sad part of the world.

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

I usually play disenfranchised youth.

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

Like one of any minority, I have experienced prejudice.

Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.

Poor men's reasons are not heard.

The stark reality is that crime happens in communities of color.

The government has a history of not treating people fairly, from the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II to African-Americans in the Civil Rights era.

Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.

And nothing embittered me, which is important, because I think ethnic people and women in this society can end up being embittered because of the lack of affirmative action, you know.

Millions of Americans, too, face the intolerable fact that because of their race or their color or the way they choose to worship God, they are denied rights which are their birthrights and which, by American principle and law, are their just due.

Not only are whites kicking us; they are telling us how to react to being kicked.

Remember, this is a country where even the non-Jews know they have no rights.

What does it amount to if the Black man, after having been made free by the letter of your law ... is to be subject to the [former] slaveholder's shotgun?

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.

People have nothing to lose. Government has stripped them of their dignity and their respect.