Disenfranchised Quotes - Page 2

• 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.

  John Lydon

  Endurance, Want, Singers

  Source: www.axs.com

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• I am honored to have Ajamu Baraka as a running mate. I think he brings enormous credibility in the disenfranchised communities, not just African American but Latino, Asian American and Native American. He is a recognized advocate for racial justice, economic justice and human rights, and I think this conversation is only just begun. It is very important.

  Jill Stein

  Running, Native American, Thinking

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• Now, ["silent majority"] hasn't been used in a long time because I guess it is associated somewhat with [Richard] Nixon. But honestly it's two words, that when you put together describe what is happening very well. There's a group of people, great people in this country that have been disenfranchised. Their country has been taken away from them.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Taken, Two

  "The Economist interviews Donald Trump". www.economist.com. September 3, 2015.

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• The first time I went to West Virginia I was surprised by how poor it was. It was like north India, there's kids running around in bare feet. The white working class has been disenfranchised as well. It's been disenfranchised by the liberal-left as well as the conservative-right. You really have to get people right across America and Britain and Europe and the world as a whole concentrating on the economic issues that affect them, because when you don't have that, you have all these phony, racist and cultural wars, and sexist wars.

  Irvine Welsh

  Running, War, Kids

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• In my lifetime I have seen democracy begin to expand, not only to include those who have been excluded, but to provide a listening arena, a vocabulary, an intelligent reception for stories that have been buried. Not just stories of the disenfranchised and the marginalized, but marginalized and disenfranchised histories even in the lives of the accepted and the privileged.

  Susan Griffin

  Intelligent, Vocabulary, Listening

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• 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.

  Scott Aukerman

  People, Together, Lifetime

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

  Anita Hill

  People, Justice, Common

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• We should figure out how to do this so that some parents don't feel disenfranchised, angry and upset. It says a lot about the state of where we are in the city, the role of parents and the reality of small school and combining schools.

  Lisa Randall

  School, Reality, Cities

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• I usually play disenfranchised youth

  Robin Tunney

  Play, Youth

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• Only the disenfranchised can party with abandon.

  Douglas Coupland

  Party, Abandon

  Douglas Coupland (2015). “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture”, p.228, Hachette UK

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• If the basic structure of Grameen is changed, the worry is that the poor women who are the rightful owners of the bank will be disenfranchised.

  Muhammad Yunus

  Worry, Poor, Structure

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• 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.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  People, Giving, Dollars

  Interview with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. May 8, 2013.

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• There have been more people disenfranchised in Washington than there have been in Kuwait.

  Jesse Jackson

  Kuwait, People, Has Beens

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• 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.

  Gary Hamel

  Real, Decision, Rebel

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• Because having your story told as a woman, as a person of color, as a lesbian, as a trans person, or as any member of any disenfranchised community, is sadly often still a radical idea. There is so much power in storytelling, and there is enormous power in inclusive storytelling, in inclusive representations.

  Kerry Washington

  Color, Ideas, Community

  Kerry Washington's Acceptance Speech at the GLAAD Media Awards, www.vulture.com. March 22, 2015.

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

  Sandra Bernhard

  Gay, Trying, Appeals

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

  Faye Wattleton

  Class, Effort, Revolution

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• Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a “disposable” culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new. Exclusion ultimately has to do with what it means to be a part of the society in which we live; those excluded are no longer society’s underside or its fringes or its disenfranchised – they are no longer even a part of it. The excluded are not the “exploited” but the outcast, the “leftovers”.

  Pope Francis

  Mean, Culture, Leftovers

  "Pope Francis: Capitalism is 'a new tyranny'" by Katie Mcdonough, www.salon.com. November 26, 2013.

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• Perhaps some day men will raise a tablet reading in letters of gold: 'All honor to women, the first disenfranchised class in history who, unaided by any political party, won enfranchisement by its own effort ... and achieved the victory without the shedding of a drop of human blood. All honor to women of the world!

  Harriot Eaton Stanton Blatch

  Party, Reading, Men

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• 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.

  Jim Brown

  Father, Home, Men

  "Q&A with Jim Brown". Interview with Charles Robinson, www.yahoo.com. November 30, 2006.

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• None of this seems to affect the leadership, that people don't go out to vote, that they don't feel the need to go vote, that they already feel disenfranchised. It's not just Obama's fault or Clinton's or whomever's, it's all of them, the whole collection of clowns I've had to sit through.

  Lewis Black

  People, Needs, Faults

  Interview with Tom Lewis, www.scpr.org. September 7, 2012.

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• You don't have a very motivated working class, it starts to affect the dynamics of the economy. If workers are disenchanted and disenfranchised, productivity losses will go along with that.

  James Sinegal

  Loss, Class, Dynamics

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• My go-to gifts are scarves from my friend Matin Maulawizada's nonprofit organization, Afghan Hands, which supports disenfranchised women in Afghanistan. In exchange for their beautiful embroidery, the women are given financial aid and classes in math and literacy. The scarves are all stunning and one of a kind.

  Claire Danes

  Beautiful, Math, Hands

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• When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically tortures and punishes her guardian rapist, or picks up a gun and fights back in ways that make her not pretty, or aggressively rejects her role as the object of desire, or even when she waddles off into the woods to squat and have a baby without the safety and expertise of hospitals and doctors, these are the kinds of violences and stories we can learn from.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Baby, Character, Fighting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• You just pick up any paper, and it's always talking about, how are we going to overthrow Donald Trump? I'm representing a tremendous - I'm representing millions of people that have - really feel angry and disenfranchised. And these are great people. And they like me and I love them. And I'll tell you what. We're not being treated right.

  Donald Trump

  Talking, People, Paper

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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