Enfranchised Quotes

#1. We are all imprisoned by the dictionary. We choose out of that vast, paper-walled prison our convicts, the little black printed words, when in truth we need fresh sounds to utter, new enfranchised noises which would produce a new effect.

Mervyn Peake

#2. I can't imagine anything that would make the world look more different than if women and girls were unequivocally enfranchised.

Chelsea Clinton

#3. Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who come, go, and do strange unfathomable thing in and around the child, the region's only enfranchised citizen.

Maya Angelou

#4. I can never feel that setting fire to houses and churches and litter boxes and destroying valuable pictures really helps to convince people that women ought to be enfranchised.

Millicent Fawcett

#5. When the City of Goleta incorporated about 10 years ago, its founders took pains to exclude Isla Vista from the boundaries for fear that UCSB students would become enfranchised, take over the government, and enact some form of rent control.

Anonymous

#6. I think that we Americans, at least in the Southern col[onie]s, cannot contend with a good grace for liberty until we shall have enfranchised our slaves, Laurens told a friend right before the signing of the Declaration of Independence.64

Ron Chernow

#7. What good is a cow that neither gives milk nor conceives? Similarly, what is the value of the birth of a son if he becomes neither learned nor a pure devotee of the Lord?

Chanakya

#8. I gave out stars whenever an appropriate situation presented itself.

Willie Stargell

#9. There is nothing wrong with being a declared liberal or conservative and conducting a sympathetic interview with a political figure who shares your views.

Peggy Noonan

#10. It is a common mistake these days to politicize anything and everything, including music.

Tony Snow

#11. Tell me what you're fighting and I'll fight with you.

Calia Read

#12. Batter up, mofo.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#13. I couldn't find an actor to play Freddy Krueger with the sense of ferocity I was seeking. Everyone was too quiet, too compassionate towards children. Then Robert Englund auditioned.

Wes Craven

#14. One of the the great things about having had something that didn't work out is: So what? I am fine.

Tina Brown