However, she said she is optimistic about the future after seeing how immigrants, women and other groups who feel marginalized are standing up and pushing for change.
European leaders cannot simply ignore the historic context in which Algerian Muslims (rightly or wrongly) feel their Sunni world to be in crisis: with Sunnis standing marginalized, with the feeling that Sunni power is being usurped.
Scripture is, and always has been, used to further marginalize the marginalized populations for which we should be standing up for.
Franco, a vocal defender of human rights since a stray bullet killed a friend during a shootout between police and drug traffickers in 2005, was known for standing up for the marginalized.
Keller suggests that it is responsible for the symbolically "masculine" standing of science that marginalizes women in science (because women are stereotyped as emotional).
Opponents of the flag compromise have known that this moment was coming, of course, but they say the risk of now being marginalized is less important than the principle of standing up for what is right.
Those of us with privilege need to be vigilant about standing up for those who are marginalized and oppressed.
Standing up for the oppressed and the marginalized, the refugee and the migrant, is not one thing among many others for Pope Francis: they are at the very heart of a Christian vocation.
"We have hundreds of thousands of homegrown sovereign citizens and militia members with ties to white nationalism training in paramilitary camps across the U.S. and standing armed in front of mosques to intimidate marginalized Americans," Picciolini added.
Candidates like Kristen Powers, an organizer with the Southern Coalition for Social Justice, are standing against this expansion, using her campaign to mobilize marginalized communities and fight for equity.
But as it is, the game is marginalizing the players it has left, and milking everything it can out of those who are standing faithfully beside it.
