Disenfranchised Quotes

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.

In our struggle against apartheid, the great supporters were Jewish people. They almost instinctively had to be on the side of the disenfranchised, of the voiceless ones, fighting injustice, oppression and evil.

We know that there are people in our nation, black people, who are systematically being disenfranchised in a number of spheres in our lives.

The number of people my age, younger now, a whole generation younger, who are fiercely bright, over-educated, under-employed and who are politicised and purposeless really upsets me. It's soul-destroying.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Bottom 10 Percent progressives are not enthusiastic about concentrations of wealth. But that's not what keeps them up at night. Their focus is on deprivation and lack of opportunity. They're motivated by empathy for people who are suffering, rather than outrage over unjustified wealth.

Unsuccessful businessmen and workers do not have the same animus against the capitalist system as do the wordsmith intellectuals. Only the sense of unrecognized superiority, of entitlement betrayed, produces that animus.

Our nation is built on a proud history of providing refuge for the poor, persecuted, and disenfranchised.

I was born dirt-poor with barely a stitch on my back, and no name or prestige attached to me, and no real clout or connections.

I mean that at least 80% of the Russian people feel destitute. It's the people who had their past and future taken from them - they don't get paid - many of them face a wall. They have nowhere to go.

Social change rarely comes about through the efforts of the disenfranchised. The middle class creates social revolutions.

It's a mistake to think that there's a difference between someone on the street and someone not on the street.

The great unwashed

We've got to understand that all disenfranchised people have something in common...The pursuit of justice really is about equality for everyone.

Having nothing, nothing can he lose.

There are all these people in this country who are just not participating in the American Dream at all.

I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.

You see people who are disenfranchised elsewhere coming to Comic Con and making lifetime friends. I love seeing the outcasts of society all bonding together.

People who are disenfranchised politically and people who are poor often don't vote. They often don't elect politicians, so the politicians who are supporting them are really being very charitable, because they're not going to give them billions of dollars in campaign funds.

Unless you've been touched personally, it's difficult to see, but there are millions of people who have no voice whatsoever.

Who are the rabble and who are the ruled?

Throughout his work, Philip Levine's most powerful commitment has been to the failed and lost, the marginal, the unloved, the unwanted.

Words cannot describe the indignation a proud woman feels for her sex in disfranchisement.

The disenfranchised should be going to art school - not the franchised.

For me, I'll always stand up for the disenfranchised, and I'm going to make a big point of that. I'm not a protest singer as such, you know? After the endurance course of the early 70s and 60s, I don't want to become one of them twats. But you got to learn to speak the truth.