Top 24 Quotes About Disenfranchisement
#1. No other country in the world disenfranchises people who are released from prison in a manner even remotely resembling the United States. In fact, the United Nations Human Rights Committee has charged that U.S. disenfranchisement policies are discriminatory and violate international law.
Michelle Alexander
#2. It's 1940 and no one laughs at the Hitler Youth now.
Anthony Doerr
#3. Hip-hop, this thing we love that loves us back, is our lingua franca.
Raquel Cepeda
#4. Without courage, our generation is doomed to another decade of political disenfranchisement and shit music.
Laurie Penny
#5. Don't stay in the harbour and miss the greatness of the sea. Just because everyone else is anchored, doesn't mean you have to be.
Joyce Rachelle
#6. (a statement someone makes to Maisie regarding attitudes prior to WWII):
"...the corridors of power are littered with Fascist leanings; anything to save the upper classes through disenfranchisement of the common man while allowing the common man to think you're on his side.
Jacqueline Winspear
#7. Giving voice to marginalised characters is extremely important to me. I want to explore the pain of disenfranchisement, the social strata and boundaries we create and how to make them more permeable.
Sue Monk Kidd
#8. I suppose a fire that burns that bright is not meant to last.
Veronica Roth
#9. The single greatest tool for making moral people commit atrocities is group affiliation. The single greatest tool for promoting global human rights and equality is to end group affiliation.
Heather Marsh
#10. For writers from working-class families, the making of art is cultural disenfranchisement, for we do not belong in literary circles and our writing rarely makes it back home.
Valerie Miner
#11. The enemy of creativity ... is fear. We're all born creative, it takes a little while to become afraid. A surprising insight: an enemy of fear is creativity. Acting in a creative way generates action, and action persuades the fear to lighten up.
Seth Godin
#12. Which is worse? the wolf who cries before eating the lamb or the wolf who does not.
Leo Tolstoy
#13. It is far better to know the painful truth than to live with a kindly falsehood.
Lois Greiman
#14. Now Dave Eggers, if you lived in San Francisco, is not an easy person to be done with. Everyone - and by everyone, I mean every white person with a college education and an interest in books - wants a piece of him. It's not just his amazingly powerful prose; it's also his charitable works.
James Bernard Frost
#15. Being surrounded by artistic and musical beauty soothes the soul, bringing both quiet calm and creative inspiration ...
Wayne D. Dosick
#16. There are Michael Scott moments, which are character choices, but there are also Steve's reads. Usually the things that I'm the biggest fan of are these weird reads that he does - just the way he's interacting with other people.
Greg Daniels
#17. Until men desire to control their own passions, evil has rooted itself in their hearts and darkness will rise again.
Jaime Buckley
#18. It seems only yesterday I used to believe
there was nothing under my skin but light.
If you cut me I could shine.
Billy Collins
#19. If it works out, it's the best thing in the world. If it doesn't work out, it's like having your heart torn out and chopped up into little pieces while you watch. It leaves a big hollow space that never really heals.
Laurell K. Hamilton
#20. Sitting at the table with the kids, and being told off like a kid, has liberated me; my disenfranchisement has empowered me.
Nick Hornby
#22. What does a car bomb say about poverty, or the execution of a rural mayor explain about disenfranchisement? ...
The war had become, it it wasn't from the beginning, an indecipherable text.
Daniel Alarcon
#23. Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself!
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
#24. The legacy of slavery comes from the sustained political, legal and economic effort to link permanently an entire group of people to poverty - and to mystify that systematic disenfranchisement by making up something called race, which could serve as a distraction.
Sarah Churchwell
