"Disfranchise" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... truthfully shown (nor can it ever be) that political or corrupt influences of any kind controlled me in any instance. I simply tried to carry out, without fear or favor, the Reconstruction acts as they came to me. They were intended to disfranchise certain persons, and to enfranchise certain others, and, till decided otherwise, were the laws of the land; and it was my duty to execute them faithfully, without regard, on the one hand, for those upon whom it was thought they bore so heavily, nor, on the other, for this or that political ...
— The Memoirs of General P. H. Sheridan, Complete • General Philip Henry Sheridan
... Oklahoma in 1910 in one way or another practically disfranchised the Negro, care being taken in every instance to avoid any definite clash with the Fifteenth Amendment. In Maryland there have been several attempts to disfranchise the Negro by constitutional amendments, one in 1905, another in 1909, and still another in 1911, but all have failed. About the intention of its disfranchising legislation the South, as represented by more than one spokesman, was very frank. Unfortunately ...
— A Social History of the American Negro • Benjamin Brawley
... right the balance of a world sadly awry because of its brutal neglect of the rights of women and children. With the best will and knowledge, no man can know women's wants as well as women themselves. To disfranchise women is deliberately to turn from knowledge and grope ...
— Darkwater - Voices From Within The Veil • W. E. B. Du Bois
... mock me! Ah, ring your bells low! And burn your lights faintly. My country is there, Above the star pricked by the last peak of snow. My Italy's there—with my brave civic Pair, To disfranchise despair. ...
— O May I Join the Choir Invisible! - and Other Favorite Poems • George Eliot
... House. At six o'clock he arose, and in a low and humble manner invoked reason and justice in behalf of an enlarged representation. He proposed to give the right of franchise to all householders who paid L10 a year in rates, and who qualified to serve on juries. He also proposed to disfranchise the numerous "rotten boroughs" which were in the gift of noblemen and great landed proprietors,—boroughs which had an insignificant number of voters; by which measure one hundred and sixty-eight parliamentary vacancies would occur. These vacancies were ...
— Beacon Lights of History, Volume X • John Lord |
