Enfranchised Quotes

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

When you begin to do things that raise the achievement of the poorest and disenfranchised students, you may not always get applause. You need to be ready for that. - Dr. Asa Hilliard

When they did that, they disenfranchised all of the people who don't live on the lake. That lake is the taxpayers' and it has to be open to everybody. - Bob Bello

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. - Ken Lombard

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

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. - Sean White

To me, the outsider is God... If you take extreme fundamentalist Muslims, who believe it's sent down from Allah that destroying the infidel is their duty, and then if you take the extreme fundamentalists on the Christian right, God got disenfranchised somewhere in that deal a long, long time ago. The minute you start saying 'I'm the only one that's right,' you have lost it, as far as I'm concerned. - Rodney Crowell

This is a sad day for our democracy. The court has not only missed an opportunity to right a great historic injustice, it has shut the courthouse door in the face of hundreds of thousands of disenfranchised citizens. - Catherine Weiss

They're doing what the U.S. Calvary, excuse me, tried to do us all - exterminate us. It's a problem becoming bigger. There's many disenfranchised Indians who couldn't make it (to the movement's kickoff), but we traveled over 3,000 miles to support them. - Vicky Schenandoah

There's no real representation of minorities. A lot of folks feel disenfranchised. - Howie Carr