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Disenfranchised Quotes
This collection of disenfranchised quotes looks at what happens when a person or community loses its voice or standing. Some lines point to unequal access to voting and representation, others to how slowly trust rebuilds once a group has been shut out. Together they frame disenfranchisement as both a historical fact and a present feeling worth naming.
These disenfranchised quotes explore what it means to lose a voice in society, from unequal voting access to communities left to Fight for basic representation.
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- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Stopping TB requires a government program that functions every day of the year, and that's hard in certain parts of the world. And partly it's because of who tuberculosis affects: It tends to affect the poor and disenfranchised most.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If any group wants to not be disenfranchised, then understanding that there's going to be a learning curve for people who have disenfranchised them is important.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.
- Go Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
For years, Lebanese have known that Palestinian camps like Nahr al-Barid and Ain al-Helwe - hopeless slums crowded with generations of disenfranchised Palestinian refugees who can't go home because of Israel, and can't work because of Lebanese laws - are awash with gunmen, criminals and, since the war in Iraq, al-Qaida inspired jihadists.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
We know that there are people in our nation, black people, who are systematically being disenfranchised in a number of spheres in our lives.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Iraqi national identity under Saddam Hussein never truly incorporated Shiites or Kurds. Sunnis, who identified most closely with the Iraqi nation, remain in some ways disenfranchised relative to the other groups, or at least they perceive themselves that way.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 2004, there were more black men disenfranchised than in 1870 - the year the 15th Amendment was ratified, prohibiting laws that deny the right to vote exclusively on the basis of race.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The people who have been unjustly disenfranchised by our criminal justice system and the people who daily fight for them always have, and always will be, the inspiration and focus of my efforts.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think that the black market's a new thing. It's always been a part of history, and it's been one of the ways that immigrants and disenfranchised people move into the middle class.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think sometimes in life we want to ignore the problems of society and just think about the good. I believe in positive thinking and affirmative living, I also think it's really important to remember all of our disenfranchised members of society.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though the money is great and the fame is great, you still have a lot of disenfranchised young men that are participating in the NFL that are not very happy. A lot of them are very bitter. A lot them are very angry. So many of them have had no fathers and no home life, and basically, no education.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.
- Grateful
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm grateful to the creative allies behind 'UnReal' who are willing to stand behind disenfranchised communities of people worldwide and help to tell their stories.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
Berta Caceres, a Lenca woman, grew up during the violence that swept through Central America in the 1980s. Her mother, a midwife and social activist, took in and cared for refugees from El Salvador, teaching her young children the value of standing up for disenfranchised people.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The real damper on employee engagement is the soggy, cold blanket of centralized authority. In most companies, power cascades downwards from the CEO. Not only are employees disenfranchised from most policy decisions, they lack even the power to rebel against egocentric and tyrannical supervisors.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Americans feel frustrated, distanced, and disenfranchised from our elected government. We deserve more: a government in which we truly all have a voice.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020