People feel like the system is rigged against them, and here is the painful part, they're right. The system is rigged.
Interpretation
The quote highlights the reality that many individuals believe the systems in place are unfairly structured against them, and this perception is indeed accurate.
Elizabeth Warren's quote speaks to the widespread sentiment of disenfranchisement among individuals who feel that the political and economic systems favor a select few while disadvantaging the majority. This perception of a 'rigged' system points to systemic inequalities and injustices that lead to frustration and disillusionment, highlighting a need for reform and change to create a more equitable society.
In practice
Using this quote in a discussion about social justice during a community meeting.
Families rely on financial services more than ever, but those who need them most - who struggle to make ends meet - too often must contend with sky-high interest rates and tricks and traps buried in the fine print of their loan products.
There's been such a sense that there's one set of rules for trillion-dollar financial institutions and a different set for all the rest of us. It's so pervasive that it's not even hidden.
Mitt Romney is the guy who said corporations are people. No, Governor Romney, corporations are not people.
I talk to nurses and programmers, salespeople and firefighters - people who bust their tails every day. Not one of them - not one - stashes their money in the Cayman Islands to avoid paying their fair share of taxes.
'Middle class' used to be synonymous with secure, with steady, with boring, because middle-class people were people who were pretty much safe from the time they first started work on through retirement and until their deaths. No longer.
Does anyone believe that Goldman Sachs is gonna give up a deal that would yield millions of dollars because someone fussed at them behind closed doors?
No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence.
we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps
Again and again in history some people wake up. They have no ground in the crowd and move to broader deeper laws. They carry strange customs with them and demand room for bold and audacious action. The future speaks ruthlessly through them. They change the world.
But it did not all happen in a day, this giving over of himself, body and soul, to the man-animals. He could not immediately forego his wild heritage and his memories of the Wild. There were days when he crept to the edge of the forest and stood and listened to something calling him far and away.
You will not be able to stay home, brother./You will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out./You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and skip,/Skip out for beer during commercials,/Because the revolution will not be televised.
Battles are followed by years of famine.
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