Danny K. Davis

Medical disenfranchisement is fueled by a host of factors that include worsening shortage of primary care doctors in needy communities and a troubling scarcity of providers willing to treat the uninsured or publicly insured. Adding to the trend are fewer medical students choosing primary care over more lucrative and specialized fields.

American Politician

Kerry Washington

I think as a whole America is dealing with the issue of homophobia. We got to be really honest about whether we believe in civil rights for all people or not. As Black people we need to remember the moment that we say it's okay to disenfranchise one segment of society, we're opening the door to move backward on ourselves.

American Actress

Natasha Trethewey

My obsessions stay the same - historical memory and historical erasure. I am particularly interested in the Americas and how a history that is rooted in colonialism, the language and iconography of empire, disenfranchisement, the enslavement of peoples, and the way that people were sectioned off because of blood.

American Poet

Malcolm Jenkins

We are fighting to pass clean-slate legislation in Pennsylvania to seal nonviolent misdemeanor records automatically after 10 years. We must provide opportunities for employment, housing, education, loans, and voting. We should not disenfranchise a third of the population.

American Athlete

Sarah Churchwell

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.

American Educator

Rachel Dolezal

Everybody's life matters. But that's why we have to say black lives matter, because the highest disproportionality, police brutality, disenfranchisement, education disproportionality in school discipline, curriculum, misrepresentation, all of this.

American Activist

Stacey Abrams

We need to recognize that, whether you're looking at Georgia or North Carolina or North Dakota or Florida, that the disenfranchisement of voters, the suppression of votes, cuts across every community, and therefore, it cuts across partisanship.

John Polanyi

If we treasure our own experience and regard it as real, we must also treasure other people's experience. Reality is no less precious if it presents itself to someone else. All are discoverers, and if we disenfranchise any, all suffer.

Hungarian Scientist

Pete Gallego

It's tremendously undemocratic in a democratic society when you deliberately disenfranchise thousands of people.

Jason Kander

There are states with photo ID requirements that don't disenfranchise eligible voters.

Use 'disenfranchise' to discuss removing someone's right to vote, often in a political or legal context.

Voting Rights

'Disenfranchise' can imply a power struggle, where one group seeks to limit the influence of another.

Power and Control

Be aware that 'disenfranchise' can be a sensitive term, especially when discussing minority rights.

Cultural Sensitivity

'Disenfranchise' captures the sense of being left out of a group or community.

Feeling Excluded

Using 'disenfranchise' suggests someone's agency or participation is taken away, often forcibly or unfairly.

Personal Agency

'Disenfranchise' does not always mean a literal exclusion; it can be used to express emotional or psychological exclusion as well.

Not Always Literal

 and anger has made us believe that these are problems that are not our problems we've been disconnected it's interesting to me we're looking at some very interesting developments in our work my state of Alabama like a number of states actually permanently disenfranchise us

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 Trans people continued to fight for equal treatment under the law, even as they faced higher rates of discrimination, unemployment, arrests, and the looming AIDS epidemic. For as long as we've been around, those in power have sought to disenfranchise trans people

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 power from the margins until the margins disappear right it's like we our ideas they start in the shadows because they have to because of the kinds of disenfranchisement that we've been subjected to but those ideas in the end are the ideas