Outcasting+in+America

"It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans." ([|Cite]) - Eric Hobsbawm

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"Measured by the prisoner’s experience, however, it might reckoned a journey of some length; for, haughty as her demeanor was, she perchance underwent an agony from every footstep of those that thronged to see her, as if her heart had been flung in the street for them all to spurn and trample upon" - The Scarlet Letter (Page 17) Nathaniel Hawthorne

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"I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast." ([|Cite]) - Meat Loaf (Michael Lee Aday)

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"We're Joads. We don't look up to nobody...We was farm people till the debt. And then - them people. They done sompin' to us. Ever' time they come seemed like they was a-whippin' me - all of us...Made me feel ashamed." - The Grapes of Wrath (Page 393) John Steinbeck

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