Disenfranchised People Quotes

#1. 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

#2. If anything, I feel a bit of pressure to write about less disenfranchised people, because I'd probably sell more books that way and would've already had some hot property that I could've sold to Hollywood.

Adrian Tomine

#3. Take responsibility for the disenfranchised people

Sunday Adelaja

#4. Just when you think you know someone, they change. Or you change. Or maybe you both change. And that changes everything.

Kim Holden

#5. 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

#6. People that are much younger in areas that are much more, kind of, disenfranchised, I guess, as far as the gay movement goes, they still have a language that they've discovered around things. And they have a vocabulary to use, and they have a way to express themselves even when they're not accepted.

Amy Ray

#7. People can talk about punk all they want, but after new wave put that down, metal is the voice of the disenfranchised and that need to become unhinged. That's why it appeals to so many people when they are younger and carries over when those people, at 40, don't want to grow up.

Corey Taylor

#8. Part of the reason why people get radicalized is because they feel they are disenfranchised; that they not there; that they are bullied. But if they are represented, they can't go and say to themselves: 'Oh, this society hates us!'

Bassem Youssef

#9. 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

#10. With the exception of Leviticus and Numbers, written by the priestly classes, most of the Bible is written by or about people who are occupied, enslaved, poor or disenfranchised in some way!

Richard Rohr

#11. By now, they rank people by income level or wages roughly the same: The bottom seventy per cent or so are virtually disenfranchised; they have almost no influence on policy, and as you move up the scale you get more influence. At the very top, you basically run the show.

Noam Chomsky

#12. Few leaders are born. We learn to be leaders. We learn by working with other people and working through our philosophy.

Frances Hesselbein

#13. I covet no man's soul, nor is my soul theirs to covet.

Ayn Rand

#14. Don't you dare feel guilty for letting those who dim your light, go. Not everyone you meet deserves to be a character in your story.

Nikki Rowe

#15. 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

#16. If I think back on my successes, such as they are, they come as often as not from the simple exercise of putting two disparate facts together and making a weapon of them.

Mark Lawrence

#17. This is how religions shore up dictators; by encircling them with words of power, words which the people are reluctant to see discredited, disenfranchised, mocked.

Salman Rushdie

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

Jesse Jackson

#19. Politically active people felt more and more disenfranchised, particularly during the ultra-New Labour years.

Jeremy Corbyn

#20. For some reason, voters can be brainwashed, and they vote sometimes against their own best interests, let alone voting against the interests of people who need them, like people who are disenfranchised and people who are poor and so forth.

Joyce Carol Oates

#21. As a child that was disenfranchised from everything, and that was in a world that was the wrong size, run by the wrong people, the wrong morale and the wrong rules, I felt completely outside of that, and I wanted some measure of control, and the measure of control I found was through fear.

Guillermo Del Toro

#22. There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.

Bette Davis

#23. ... I think that childfree by choice is the new gay. We're the new disenfranchised group. People think we're irresponsible, immoral sluts and that our lifestyle is up for debate.

Jen Kirkman