I want to make sure that the unincorporated areas don't feel any more disenfranchised.
Quotes about disenfranchised (16 Quotes)
Florida's 2000 felon purge program resulted in over 50,000 legal voters being disenfranchised. When asked for assurances that the 2004 felon list was 90 percent accurate -- the minimum level local supervisors of elections requested for such a list -- we were told that it was better than the 2000 list, with no data to support its accuracy.
We're here for those 33 million customers a week worldwide that make up a huge part of the disenfranchised customer base, who don't even know where to buy the music if they hear it. But our customers are not going to walk into their favorite Starbucks store and feel as if it's been converted into a music store.
Anything that's considered a little off-the-menu or special is going to spur some demand. And in country, we hear a lot about the 'disenfranchised core,' whose tastes run to the traditional and who like the older sound. Those people are often big Alan Jackson fans, and there's enough Sunday morning specialty programming out there in country radio land to get some good exposure for this record.
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.
President Clinton's commitment to addressing climate change is a big step in the fight against global warming and economic injustice, ... It's gratifying that Clinton Global Initiative recognized our efforts to train climate change fighters from the same disenfranchised communities who suffer the most from its effects.
It's a false argument to say anybody is going to be disenfranchised. The only ones that are going to be disenfranchised are the ones trying to commit fraud. What are Democrats hiding from What are they scared of.
I usually play disenfranchised youth.
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.
People rush around in the summer to try and find like-minded musicians to put together. Packages are all the rage. I prefer keeping it smaller, having a tour that's manageable -- both for me and the audience -- and Rufus and I go together in certain ways. We're both out of step with any kind of music scene. We don't really fit in anywhere. I think we feel similarly disenfranchised -- in a good way. Also, I can listen to Rufus every night. That's important.
Every man needs slaves like he needs clean air. To rule is to breathe, is it not? And even the most disenfranchised get to breathe. The lowest on the social scale have their spouses or their children.
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.
I'm trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.
We set out to rebuild New Orleans how the people wanted. In the poorer, disenfranchised regions - like Algiers, and the seventh and ninth wards - literacy, food and medical care were already ongoing problems. We're trying to address all of those.
For much of the Rocky Mountain region, I believe people feel not only left out but disenfranchised. The general attitude with the current administration is that the West is of little consequence. We are treated like a Third World country.
For the past 40 years, the law on voting rights has worked well to enfranchise the disenfranchised. But the threats to minority voters and efforts to discourage minority voters continue.