"Disfranchise" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 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 |
