Disenfranchise
verb
To take away someone's right to vote or other privileges.
The new laws tend to disenfranchise the poor and minorities.
Often appears as...
- disenfranchise minority groups
- disenfranchise the poor
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
verb
To exclude or reject someone from something.
The team felt disenfranchised by the decision to bring a new player aboard without consultation.
Often appears as...
- disenfranchise from decision making
- disenfranchise from a community
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
verb
To take away someone's right to vote or other privileges.
The new laws tend to disenfranchise the poor and minorities.
Often appears as...
- disenfranchise minority groups
- disenfranchise the poor
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
verb
To exclude or reject someone from something.
The team felt disenfranchised by the decision to bring a new player aboard without consultation.
Often appears as...
- disenfranchise from decision making
- disenfranchise from a community
Usage tips
Formal, Disapproving
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Voting Rights
Use 'disenfranchise' to discuss removing someone's right to vote, often in a political or legal context.
Several activists are fighting against efforts that disenfranchise thousands of voters.
Pro Tip 2/3Power and Control
'Disenfranchise' can imply a power struggle, where one group seeks to limit the influence of another.
The company's policies disenfranchise workers who have been advocating for better conditions.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Sensitivity
Be aware that 'disenfranchise' can be a sensitive term, especially when discussing minority rights.
The documentary highlighted how certain laws disenfranchise communities of color.
Pro Tip 1/3Voting Rights
Use 'disenfranchise' to discuss removing someone's right to vote, often in a political or legal context.
Several activists are fighting against efforts that disenfranchise thousands of voters.
Pro Tip 2/3Power and Control
'Disenfranchise' can imply a power struggle, where one group seeks to limit the influence of another.
The company's policies disenfranchise workers who have been advocating for better conditions.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Sensitivity
Be aware that 'disenfranchise' can be a sensitive term, especially when discussing minority rights.
The documentary highlighted how certain laws disenfranchise communities of color.
Pro Tip 1/3Voting Rights
Use 'disenfranchise' to discuss removing someone's right to vote, often in a political or legal context.
Several activists are fighting against efforts that disenfranchise thousands of voters.
Pro Tip 2/3Power and Control
'Disenfranchise' can imply a power struggle, where one group seeks to limit the influence of another.
The company's policies disenfranchise workers who have been advocating for better conditions.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Sensitivity
Be aware that 'disenfranchise' can be a sensitive term, especially when discussing minority rights.
The documentary highlighted how certain laws disenfranchise communities of color.
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We need to talk about an...
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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A short history of trans...
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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Continuing the Fight for...
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
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We need to talk about an...
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
Video examples
A short history of trans...
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
Video examples
Continuing the Fight for...
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
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Danny K. Davis
American Politician
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.
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Kerry Washington
American Actress
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.
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Natasha Trethewey
American Poet
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.
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Malcolm Jenkins
American Athlete
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.
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Sarah Churchwell
American Educator
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.
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Rachel Dolezal
American Activist
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.
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Stacey Abrams
American Politician
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.
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John Polanyi
Hungarian Scientist
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.
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Pete Gallego
American Politician
It's tremendously undemocratic in a democratic society when you deliberately disenfranchise thousands of people.
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Jason Kander
American Politician
There are states with photo ID requirements that don't disenfranchise eligible voters.
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Danny K. Davis
American Politician
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.
Quote examples
Kerry Washington
American Actress
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.
Quote examples
Natasha Trethewey
American Poet
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.
Quote examples
Malcolm Jenkins
American Athlete
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.
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Sarah Churchwell
American Educator
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.
Quote examples
Rachel Dolezal
American Activist
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.
Quote examples
Stacey Abrams
American Politician
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.
Quote examples
John Polanyi
Hungarian Scientist
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.
Quote examples
Pete Gallego
American Politician
It's tremendously undemocratic in a democratic society when you deliberately disenfranchise thousands of people.
Quote examples
Jason Kander
American Politician
There are states with photo ID requirements that don't disenfranchise eligible voters.
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