#underdog

Yet as I read the birth stories about Jesus I cannot help but conclude that though the world may be tilted toward the rich and powerful, God is tilted toward the underdog. ↗

— Philip Yancey

#jesus-christ #underdog #christ

It bothers me to know there is the possibility that I as a Christian would be not only an underdog, but that I would be trodden upon if I claimed that I was a Christian. ↗

— Lee Greenwood

#christian #claimed #i #know #me

No matter our size or shape, everyone deserves a safe place in this world." ~ from BIG SMALL DOG, a children's story about overcoming bullying and adversity, and discovering unity and friendship. ↗

— Suzanne V. Marshall

#book #children-s-book #dog-story #empowerment #inspirational

In the end, glorification of splendid underdogs is nothing other than glorification of the splendid system that makes them so. ↗

— Theodor Adorno

#glorification #in the end #makes #nothing #other

There is also a natural and very, very strong empathy with the underdog, with people who have suffered, people who have been pushed around by foreigners in particular, but also by their own people. ↗

— Lakhdar Brahimi

#around #been #empathy #foreigners #natural

And in England there has always been something deeply pro-Arab, of course, not among all Englishmen, and anti-Israeli, in the establishment. They abstained in the 1947 UN partition resolution... They maintained an arms embargo against us in the 1950s... They always worked against us. They think the Arabs are the underdogs. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#always #among #arabs #arms #been

I'm a big fan of the misunderstood, the vilified, the underdog, the breaking of myths. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#big fan #breaking #fan #i #misunderstood

...so bear in mind that majorities, especially respectable ones, are nine times out of ten in the wrong; and that if you see man or boy striving earnestly on the weak side, however wrong-headed or blundering he may be, you are not to go and join the cry against him. If you can't join him and help him, and make him wiser, at any rate remember that he has found something in the world which he will fight and suffer for.... ↗

— Thomas Hughes

#underdog #respect

God repeatedly uses the least-likely and least-prepared individuals (ourselves included) to make the deepest impact on our world. ↗

— Dillon Burroughs

#impact #make-a-difference #underdogs #faith

I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling! ↗

— Zac Efron

#best #best way #come #competitive #feeling