Disenfranchised Quotes

I`m very disturbed about the direction American foreign policy is going. I think something needs to be done to help alleviate the conditions which have created a disenfranchised and angry faction in the Middle East. I don`t think military intervention is the correct solution. I regret what we as a country have done so far.

I`m trying to appeal to the disenfranchised everybody, not just specifically gay.

(on his role as Charles Gunn on "Angel":) "Gunn is an activist, a renegade vampire hunter who leads his motley crew of fellow hunters on a personal crusade of execution for reasons that the audience is not yet aware of. He is a tormented soul and a lone ranger, much like Angel, but he has adopted a family of lost and disenfranchised who he will protect at any cost. It`s almost like he`s two people in one, a violent and aggressive warrior, but also someone who desires family and people close to him." (March 18, 2003)

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.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.