Sentence examples for enfranchised minorities from inspiring English sources

But I have to say that she has made my life difficult with my gay and lesbian friends and with the lesbian, gay and bisexual community in general, who have supported me for years in my struggle for rights and the safekeeping of all less than perfectly enfranchised minorities.

So a new map that enfranchised minorities could have a major effect on the partisan balance of power in the state.

Redrawing districts is not the only substitute for literacy tests used by Republicans to marginalize the effect of increasingly enfranchised minorities.

Two other jurisdictions in the D.C. area have also toyed with enfranchising minors.

After Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Act into law, newly enfranchised racial minorities began to vote for liberal Democratic candidates throughout the South, and Southern white conservatives began to switch their party registration from Democrat to Republican en masse.

By enfranchising racial minorities, the Act facilitated a political realignment of the Democratic and Republican parties.

Latvia and Estonia both need a quiet nudge towards enfranchising their Russian minorities, left after the Soviet occupation, whose continuing (if largely self-induced) statelessness allows Russia to pose as their best protector.

"The victory we celebrate," said Clinton, "is but the most recent chapter in the overlapping struggles of our nation's history to enfranchise women and minorities, the disabled and the young, with the power to affect their own destiny, and our common destiny, by participating fully in our democracy".

But the spectre of a civil war, pitting the historically dominant Sunni minority against the newly enfranchised Shia majority, is now looming, most alarmingly.In the early morning of February 22nd, saboteurs overcame guards at the Askariya shrine at Samarra, north of Baghdad, an important site of Shia pilgrimage.

Such lapses are especially troubling because Asian-Americans are the fastest-growing minority in New York and also among the least enfranchised.

More contentious is his argument that modern Chicago presents a comparable example of rich white people forcing racial minorities, especially blacks, to live separately and badly.Even when black people were enfranchised and began asserting their civil rights in the 1960s, politics in Chicago was manipulated in ways whose end-result was not so different from apartheid, he argues.